emergentfutures:

In Finland, a crowdfunding platform for community projects

Conceived in Finland, Brickstarter encourages citizens to take civic projects into their own hands, rather than waiting for governments to pick them up.

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I fully applaud this effort, I think getting crowd-sourcing into many areas is wonderful. But it begs the question: isn’t government essentially an existing source of crowd-funding and sourcing for this? In other words if, assuming a democracy, you want something done then shouldn’t it already work this way?