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Many phrases have been thrown around -- direct democracy, open source democracy, online democracy, eGov, etc. Perhaps some of these are too specific, others seem to refer to other goals.

THIS IS A TWO-PART QUESTION:

1) What is the most best (most descriptive, most comprehensive, etc) phrase to describe the goals of online community governance in a democratic framework?

2) And what are the criteria for the ideal phrase?

Note: please propose answers to *both* questions, as separate proposals. These are asked together so that the generations are coupled, and so that the currently agreed-upon criteria are visible as people propose new answers.

Generation 8: Phase: Evaluating Existing Proposals

Please click on ALL the answers of the question that you agree with.

Number of people who have endorsed at least one proposal: 5

Time passed since first endorsement: 0 days, 22 hours and 33 minutes.
NOTE: 1 days must have passed between the first endorsement and the moment when the questioner can move the question on.

Proposals:

Voting History	Proposed Solution	Check all the ones you endorse
	Proposal The question is ill defined: "is there a better phrase than 'open source democracy'?" for what? Depending on the context different phrase can be used. The difficulty of this question to reach an agreement is related to this. If it is important it should be rephrased, for example: In the group MG we are trying to achieve a sort of open source democracy. A democratic state where people can collaborate, interact, deliberate using the internet, and in a way that the rules of democracy can themselves be modified and get better. How should we call it?
	Proposal democracy 3.0 democracy 3.0 is the synthesis between attic democracy (1.0) and representative democracy (2.0)
	Proposal Free Democracy Because it frees our current democracy from many restrictions. And it makes the people who hear it think about it, because most see democracy itself as something free (compared to the Monarchy,...). So they dont go into the trap: "Ah, I know, e-Governance is where I can go to the White House page and make a comment (which nobody reads anyway)."
	Proposal Complete Democracy In English at least, the word "complete" has several connotations. It can mean whole or entire. It can also mean "to the greatest extent." And its verb form can mean finished, done, or at the end-state. All of these connotations are aligned with our message.
	Proposal Open Democracy.
	Proposal Collaborative e-Governance. It is collaborative because the common people should participate it is governance because we are directly deciding the new rules it is "e-" because it uses the internet
	Proposal collaborative e-governance.
	Proposal e-Governance This phrase is a nice transformation of "e-Democracy" to further imply that it is not simply an electronic add-on to existing (representative) democracy processes, but rather is an expansion of the "e" concept to actual governance. See this description in Wikipedia (emphasis added): Whilst e-Government has traditionally been understood as being centered around the operations of government, e-Governance is understood to extend the scope by including citizen engagement and participation in governance. As such, following in line with the OECD definition of e-Government, e-Governance can be defined as the use of ICTs as a tool to achieve better governance.
	Proposal Collaborative governance

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