Grassroots Political Participation via P2P Video Re-mixing

About a year ago, I was briefly consulted by Italy’s RadioRadicale, to review and analyze a new challenging and very ambitious project.

The goal was the creation of a software-based technology platform to allow the easy editing, commenting, remixing and online re-distribution of all of the tens of thousands of hours of video and audio recordings of the Italian Parliament daily proceedings that the Radical Party maintains.

What the organization wants to achieve, is to facilitate and motivate access to these huge digital collections as to promote greater awareness and understanding of the political processes and to expose issues and facts that do not normally get coverage from traditional mainstream media.

I am sharing here today the general profile and traits of this innovative P2P publishing and distribution platform that will be developed in the coming months.

As far as I know, this is the first time that P2P technology has been planned to be used to facilitate a democratic and open-ended political discourse, where not only those who traditionally had access to the media, can have a word about what the Italian politicians do, say and turn into law.

Read on…