If you cannot let be people know how relevant the information is to them in one minutes time then it’s not relevant to them then when they get impacted it’s already passed resolution. There is a fable about this in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which I will not repeat here. The idea is that it’s just too far away for ordinary people. This is a case which we kind of demonstrated. We called this the g0v sunflower digital camp because this is a demonstration of direct electronic democracy. People demonstrating to the parliament showed how should we talk about trade agreements. The sunflower movement is a prime example of the citizens not noticing anything until it’s too late.

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