The Net Party (Spanish: ''Partido de la Red'') was a
political party
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headquartered in
Argentina
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. The company proposes an online form of
liquid democracy that it calls "net democracy" based on the Internet. Their goal is to elect representatives who will reliably vote according to what the citizenry decide online.
History
The party was founded by
Santiago Siri and
Esteban Brenman in April 2012. It received the required support of 4000 citizens (to officially exist as a party) in August 2013. During the October 2013 elections, Net Party ran for a seat in the local parliament of
Buenos Aires
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and achieved 21,000 votes (1% of the votes). It is currently working to improve a software package called
DemocracyOS
The Net Party (Spanish: ''Partido de la Red'') was a political party headquartered in Argentina. The company proposes an online form of liquid democracy that it calls "net democracy" based on the Internet. Their goal is to elect representatives ...
.
After these elections the Net Party worked together with the Legislature of the city of Buenos Aires in the implementation of Demos, was a platform in which the citizens of the city of Buenos Aires could qualify from a list of 20 projects of law, of all political parties, those that they considered most relevant. The launch of the platform was on November 5 (in 2014), referring to
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educate ...
.
In 2015, the Net Party was presented again to elections represented by
Gonzalo Stupenengo in the list of deputies of the city of Buenos Aires by the "
Cambiemos
(JxC, ) was a political coalition in Argentina. A liberal coalition, it was created in 2015 as Cambiemos (), and renamed in 2019. It was composed of Republican Proposal, Radical Civic Union, Civic Coalition ARI and United Republicans.
These ...
" big tent, with Gonzalo Stupenengo he worked again in 2018 with the Legislature of the city of Buenos Aires for the implementation of "Participemos" an online platform where the citizens of Buenos Aires can choose what proposals will be taken to vote later, with the technology of
Democracy Earth
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.
In addition, the party presented a bill to regularize
Uber
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in the city of Buenos Aires.
Expansion
This Net Party continued to expand in 2015, with the development of independent nodes of
political parties
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
that share the same name and purpose.
In Uruguay the Digital Party was created.
This party was created in Uruguay after some Uruguayans were motivated by the electoral performance of the Net Party in Argentina.
Proposed method
The Net Party created an
open-source
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software
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The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
package (DemocracyOS) to be installed on computer servers and to function as a new venue for
democratic participation.
# Citizens are able to vote on existing legislative projects being discussed in the local
parliament
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; this allows more power to constituents to determine how the party's congressman will vote.
# This platform also acts as a space to propose and vote on new law proposals; they are then officially presented by the party's
congressman
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if they meet a threshold of citizen support.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.partidodelared.org (Spanish)
Media appearances(mostly Spanish media)
Political parties in Argentina