Articles About Aretê Party

• A new force for engaged democracy

  By Megan BachmanJune 12, 2014

  

  Crowdsourcing has been used for everything from tracking the path of meteors to coming up with new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors.

  A new local political party now sees promise in using online tools to ask villagers to solve community problems. Eventually citizens could help run the town from their computers and smartphones.