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Original Title: La Scelta
Italy, Documentary, 2018 50 min, Current Affairs, Politics, Investigation
Directed and Produced by Unozerozerouno

Internet voting could make electing political representatives useless. Direct democracy, without intermediaries, has always been considered utopian and impossibile to implement in the real world. In Italy, the Five Star Movement is using a platform – the operating system Rousseau – to allow citizens to vote online.

But since it went live, Rousseau has been harshly criticized. There are no clear boundaries between the platform, its ideator – the Casaleggio Associati – and the Five Star Movement. Associazione Rousseau and Casaleggio Associati are different legal entities, in the same registered office. Davide Casaleggio is the president of Casaleggio Associati, but he have always diminished his role in the Movement. Rousseau’s administrators declared they obtained 500.000 euro through a fundraising campaign.

But the platform has a security problem. Within 24 hours of Rousseau’s upload, two hackers cracked the system. And in the months that followed, the platform has been blocked many times, putting users data at risk. Still, Rousseau is currently in use as the Movement’s platform.

The documentary analyses the current status of democracy and its evolution. Could the web transform representative democracy in direct democracy? Is Rousseau a successfull attempt, despite its problems?

Directors: Gabriele Rossi, Giorgio Viscardini
Authors: Silvia Boccardi, Giuseppe Francaviglia
Production: Unozerozerouno Productions

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