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The Constitution Dilemma Final Presentation Ricardo Vega - Thesis 1

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Due the need to improve the democracy, people in Chile are using network technologies to facilitate the discussion on socio-political issues, because technologies give them quick, cheap and simple tools that allows the emergence and organization of new autonomous voices, previously not visible.

Description I am researching and designing an online platform to help chilean people to be more aware about the contents of the Constitution, to comprehend its relevance to current political events, and the quality of the democracy.

Impetus I want changes, improvements on Democracy.

Government, Politics Business, etc.

People

Representative Democracy?

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Written by few people, no public deliberations.

Voted during a Pinochet’s dictatorship ...with no voters register at all.

Based on Jaime Guzman concepts.

“[...] If the adversaries will rule, they will be constrained to follow a not so different path oneself wants, because, forgive the metaphor, the range of alternatives that the sport field imposes to play in it action, whatever small enough to make it extremely difficult to do otherwise.�

Jaime Guzman Realidad Magazine, Dec 1979

A Constitution to suit the wishes of Pinochet's political elite.

With a lot of “tricks�...

What I can do?

How?

DOMAINS

Online tools Participatory & collaborative systems, like github and Wikipedia

Laws & Constitution as a Social code that rules social behaviour

Civic Awareness Media appropriation Political empowerment Social Networks

Icelandic Crowdsourced Constitution Financial collapse in Iceland Need of a New Constitution.

People was called to rewrite the Constitution.

New text available online, people can read, comment and suggest modifications.

Constitute Project Browse and search constitutions tagged topics “We also hope citizens will use Constitute to learn more about their own constitutions, and those of countries around the world.� https://www.constituteproject.org

German Law on Github A German software engineer (Stefan Wehrmeyer) has downloaded the German federal government’s laws Posted them to GitHub, and make modifications. (something happen here in US too!)

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Description I am researching and designing an online platform to help chilean people to be more aware about the contents of the Constitution, to comprehend its relevance to current political events, and the quality of the democracy.

On line Platform: Connect people’s interest with Constitution topics (Health, Education...)

Relate stories, news and social discussions Show how the Constitution affects the everyday life.

Allow people’s participation, commenting the contents.

Proposing topics and improvements

Relate (stories, news) > Constitution contents Explore (topics) > Constitution contents Participate (comment, share) > Constitution contents

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7 visual prototypes so far‌ each one a set of new questions

1

No clear sequence of actions Too focused on “THE CONSTITUTION”

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To focused on visualization Too many unclear options

3

Many elements at the same time

where are the issues of interest for the people, ah?

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I started to “Listen” the people’s voice.

But to confusing yet

5-6

then, someone gave me a kiss...

kiss

keep it simple, stupid

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simplifying processes from the interests of the people to the Constitution

Big challenges: Developing a working prototype Research the profiles of users Develop the semantic structure of the Constitution

and the name…

Todo cambia… (everything changes…)

Rayando la cancha (scratching the court…)

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Weeks

1-2 Dec

3-4 Jan

5-6 Jan

7-8 Feb

Site out line: - User interactions explorations. Final site map, wireframes.

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Graphic Development: - Development of graphic elements, colors scheme, typographic rules, etc.

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Code, Front-end & Back-end: - DDBB implementation (MySql).

- Interactions: Technical user interactions and contents interactions.

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User Test: - Usability test, Checking for validation and compatibility on browsers.

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Content Development & Integration: - Processing of Constitutional text (tag, structuring, etc.)

- Development of Website content (Images, text, articles, etc)

Launch / Presentation - Prepare documentation of the project.

- Setting of elements for presentation.Onsite Installation.

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9-10 11-12 13-14 15-16 Feb Mar Mar Apr

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thanks

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