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Podcast: Basil's Table - Banking On The Future In A Climate Of Change (888 Co-operative Causeway)(Special)

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(This episode first went out on Whooshkaa, which has since shut down and taken its player links with it. The recording now plays at the top of this post.)

Antony McMullen from Co-operative Bonds organised this particular event via 888 Co-operative Causeway Basil's Table interview series to explore the challenges and opportunities for customer-owned banks in the post Royal Commission environment.

The main speaker for this event is Rowan Dowland who heads up the Bank Australia's strategy and planning area.

While this event is not directly operated by Designing Open Democracy, this may be of interest to our community in providing the background context for next month talk "Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility towards Economic Democracy (Cooperatives)" by Antony McMullen who co-founded both Co-operative Bonds and 888 Co-operative Causeway.

This was recorded live with minimum editing on the February 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm at the Kelvin Club.

888 Co-operative Causeway Event Link: https://www.888causeway.coop/event/basils-table-banking-on-the-future-in-a-climate-of-change/

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Podcast: Designing Open Democracy: "Trust, a concept analysis" (After: Fake News Trivia) (2019-12-11 Wednesday)

Hi All Members of Designing Open Democracy,

Before the year ends, this is a gathering about how the year in democracy has ended, as well as to discuss what the future may hold for democracies around the world. Our guest Alexar Pendashteh (then director of Open Source Industries Australia) presents his analysis on the nature of trust and how society conceptualises and acts upon it, joined by Andrew Kay (of the Angry Aussie YouTube channel), cooperative expert Antony McMullen from the audience, and host Brian Khuu.

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Parties needs a method for policy precedence flow with policy development tools. Observation of a real discussion problem included

In this discussion in pirate party, it appears that mitra wants specific policy stance, due to https://www.environment.vote/scorecard ranking pirate party as negative in environmental policy.

However pirate party members countered that their current policy already broadly covers her concern. And that the scorecard did not take this into account, instead trying to look for specific answers.

https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/climate-change-and-environment-policy/148/30

A policy development tool could perhaps address this dynamic by relying on how the law covers many situation without having specific wording for every situation via the usage of "precedence".

What's your thought?

Maybe there needs to be a way to have a mindmap of how each party policy flows onto specific decision. Where if a policy changes, the connection become fainter, to indicate that we need to revaluate if it still hold for a specific question.

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The song that overthrew the President of Africa's largest country - يوم الشعب #لا_للعهدة_الخامسة

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX4b5WUehzY

This is a five-minute song from Algeria. Some of you would know that there has just been a mini-revolution: a very infirm 82-year-old President Boutéflika had won a fifth mandate as President. He seemed so sick that he would be incapable of carrying on with his duties. Boutéflika has been in power since 1999!

After massive street demonstrations, he tendered his resignation.

Apart from the suffering of our Indigenous compatriots, anything we suffer in our country is 20 times worse in Algeria.

I want you all to see this video. You will see that nowhere is any there any expression of anger, only of determination and good will.

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Make Your Own Democracy (Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in Melbourne)

This recording was from a joint event between Designing Open Democracy and Melbourne Geek Night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbL5uZMqTqQ&feature=youtu.be

Meetup link: https://www.meetup.com/DesigningOpenDemocracy/events/261014681/

This will be a series of special joint presentations with Melbourne Geek Night and Designing Open Democracy about innovative democratic startups growing in Melbourne.

One of the presentations in this event was by Danny Johnson on his MYO Democracy platform — an open-source platform for collaborative democratic decision making.

The second presentation by Steve Guardiani of Melbourne Business Centre is geared towards anyone interested in starting (or growing) a business and the unexpected challenges that may hit you! Steve will deliver a candid talk about some of his experiences and will include:

  • Getting burnt with SEO
  • How to lose $5,000 in 3 days with Adwords, and enjoy $0 ROI
  • How I got sued for $10,000 for trying to follow the Google Guidelines
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Designing Open Democracy - "New Models of Democracy" (Brisbane)

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEF8WmXrV3s

About

With the looming 2019 Federal Election, Designing Open Democracy would like to invite everyone in Brisbane to come along to discover the democracy innovations that minor parties are adopting to differentiate themselves from the current two major parties in Australia.

In addition, we will also be inviting along a few democracy experts to help present about various aspect of democracy and models that could be adopted to help make the Australian government more representative of the will of its citizens.

This event will be streamed.

Many Thanks to ThoughtWorks Brisbane for the facility provided

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20th March 2019: Starting a Democracy Forum / Think Tank - Is it needed? What's required for one?

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 6:00 PM to Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 8:00 PM AEDT

Melbourne Business Centre

Hi All Members of the Designing Open Democracy community

During the last gathering, everyone introduced themselves and a common consensus emerged on a desire to investigate the possibility of starting a officially registered organisation for democracy research and advocacy.

So this meeting we will be coming together to work out if we need to and to get things started on this idea.

Also I would like to get people to think about what it would take to get a democracy focused panel into a major event. Here is one food for thought... a discussion panel called "Politics In Moderation" where we could perhaps invite Tony from Q&A to discuss on how he moderates, along with other debate moderators.

Also much thanks to Melbourne Business Centre for assistance in providing a quiet meeting space for us

Date: Wednesday the 20th of March 2019 Time: Starting at 6pm Location: Melbourne Business Centre, Level 9, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000 (melbournebusinesscentre.com.au)