Project Leader │ Francisco Gomez Paz
Project Assistant │ Yasmina Haryono

The massive power of Internet, the velocity of information spreading and its accessibility free of physical frontiers has substantially transformed, in only a few years, the way we work, communicate and live.

Many long time established systems have buckled under the force of the net; consolidated systems such as the music and entertainment business, tourism, shopping, telecommunications, journalism, and also interpersonal relationships, knowledge spreading and network communities are good examples of how the Internet has drastically changed the way we li

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Nowadays, thanks to emergent wireless technologies, geolocalizers and nanotechnologies, all that enormous power is not longer restricted to a fixed place but comes along as we hit the streets. As a natural consequence, the way we relate to our territory will never be the same, an invisible layer of collective information, services and communications related to the territory will merge down with it, transforming definitively our perception and experience of it.

The force of people connecting, sharing information and real-time synchronizing of their experiences is ready to create a colossal amount of precious services related to the physical location of the user.

Despite all the changes in the business and communication fields, political systems haven’t used any of these potentials for improving their complicated structures, evading the benefits of improved interaction among people and their political representatives.

The aim of this Seminar is to anticipate this “Revolution”, finding innovative mechanisms, products and systems that promote the permeability of the political system, helping individuals to share ideas, debate, join forces and, why not, make decisions.

Men no longer want to be passive users, instead they act as active agents.

The New Revolution: with the community, its participants and institutions as the base of our social being, how will political systems be changed by new mobile technologies? Can we imagine Democracy 2.0? What will happen when people will be no longer a passive actor of politics, when technology will give all individuals the possibility of expressing, debating and deciding in real time? Will communities be more intelligent? Can we accomplish an e-government? Which communication mechanisms will allow people to communicate with government and vice versa? How will individuals relate to their neighbours and the government?

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