Hot damn but I love the future. Iceland is drawing up a new constitution, in the wake of the country’s commercial banks collapsing. Which is news, but not news-news; the interesting part is how the former vikings are going about the process – they’re crowdsourcing the draft online, with links to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts.

Obviously this isn’t the kind of thing that would work outside of a wealthy, infrastructurally developed country like Iceland, but the idea is insanely exciting. The country’s constitutional council uploads draft clauses of the new constitution to its website and invites the public to comment on any changings being made, but on the website and their Facebook page – and the comments are being brought into the document proper.

And because if you’re going to social network your governance you might as well do it right, they’ve also got Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube accounts – the last of which is especially sexy because they stream all constitutional meetings live.

I mean look, I’m wary about any government that claims to be totally transparent in its dealings, even when you’re harmless and Icelandic-looking, but if there’s any way to make a democracy take full advantage of available technology, this would be it.

[GOOD]