Definitely so, I would say first that we learned this technique from many smaller polities. Our e-petition system was from Iceland Better Reykjavik, our participatory budget system are from Porto Alegre in Brazil as well as from Madrid and Barcelona (Consul and Decidim), respectively, the Polis system, was from Seattle, the Loomio system, which we used during the Occupy, was from from New Zealand. The thing though, is that these technologies previously only worked in smaller polities 10 million or fewer people, and one of the reasons was that broadcasting was so much cheaper than broad listening.