Adam Greenfield has an interesting idea for emergent democracy: The minimal compact: An open-source constitution for post-national states. I don’t have time to read through all of it right now, but it looks like a promising combination of civil libertarian governance with open-source ownership, modification, and distribution. Particularly interesting from his article:
...the agreement under contemplation in this paper, the minimal compact, proposes a post-national, virtual state: a hyperlocal polity whose constitution is conceived as codebase. Such a constitution would specify a minimum number of articles to which all signatories subscribe, allowing an instantiation of the state to form anywhere and anywhen one or more signatories is present.
