Movie on Direct Democracy

UsNow is inspiring: it’s a documentary convincing us why the world may be better if we made decisions together.

One part of it delves into Participatory Budgeting with cute Sophia Parker explaining the benefits of this exercise. Participants stop blaming public administrators for being too lose with money, or too strict where they would have liked services – and after all – they become more respecting and constructive citizens.

She also mentions that the difficulty in exercises like this is not the pitching of ideas (hundreds come out quickly) but the prioritization and decision on the top 3-5 proposals.

While the below clip from the movie is a good one, the whole movie deserves a big applause and large audience.