The Net Party (Partido de la Red, in Spanish) is a political party headquarted in Argentina, with a global projection based on Internet, that proposes an online form of Liquid Democracy - wikipedia ![]()
Net Party calls its Liquid Democracy system "net democracy", with the goal of getting elected a congressman to systematically vote according to what the citizenry decides online.
History
The party was officially founded in April 2013, received the required support of 4000 citizens (to exist as a party) in August 2013, and ran for a seat in the local parliament of Buenos Aires during the October 2013 elections achieving 21.000 votes (1% of the votes).
Net Party is currently working to improve the DemocracyOS furthermore and to get elected its first congressman in the 2015 elections.
Proposed Method
The Net Party created an open-source software (DemocracyOS) to be used as a new democratic participation instance, for citizens to:
- vote on existing legislative projects being discussed in the local parliament, so as to determine how the party´s congressman will vote; and
- propose and vote on new law proposals, to be officially presented by the party´s congressman if they meet a threshold of citizen support.
In the DemocracyOS software each citizen can either cast their vote or can delegate it on a trusted peer - wikipedia ![]()
Pia Mancini is one of the founders of the Net Party, a political party headquartered in Argentina.