Iceland Pursues a User-Generated Constitution

June 10, 2011

iceland constitution council.jpgIn 2009, Iceland passed a privacy and free speech law to make itself into a haven for new media. Since then it has seen the eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull and Grímsvötn volcanoes and one of the worst banking meltdowns of all time. But despite the dark times, Iceland has not lost its faith in the power of the social web.

The country is now crowdsourcing the writing of its new constitution.

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