The World Parliament Experiment

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The World Parliament Expermiment (WPE) is an online debating forum which allows participants to vote on issues, elect representatives and change procedures. The provisional parliament is open to anyone to join and has an elected speaker and various other delegates.

The WPE was first called The Global Democracy Experiment (TGDE).

1 Philosophy of the Movement
2 WPE at the International Student Festival In Trondheim 2007
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Philosophy of the Movement

The WPE aims at becoming a real political factor, with the long term goal of creating a united, direct democratic world. Proponents claim that the more people participate, the more important the WPE will become, so that the WPE results will be introduced into the international political process as claims to decisions-makers^[1] during the first phase of its development. In the long run, the WPE is meant to serve as a role model for the establishment of a real life World Parliament. It currently uses a direct democratic online voting system with delegated voting, where every member can post proposals that the other members can view, improve, debate and finally decide upon.

[edit] WPE at the International Student Festival In Trondheim 2007

More than 400 students from over 100 countries participated in a World Parliament Experiment during the International Student Festival in Trondheim/Norway on February, 22nd, 2007.