Obviously if you practice democracy constantly in your workplace, in your art club, in your union, involving 100 people or 200 people, you don’t need any digital tools. The human brain is perfectly capable of coming to common decisions when it is a small community, in which case the most digital can do for you is just to take meeting notes or something like that. On the other hand, for national scale democracy, yes, I believe digital is a necessary assisting tool here, because without digital it is very asymmetrical.

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