cotech-website/_coops/digital-liberties.md

---
title: Digital Liberties
name: Digital Liberties
members: 7
website: https://digital-liberties.coop
email: 
twitter: 
github: 
telephone: '07908 592 835'
address: 44 Arkwright Road,London,NW3 6BH
latitude: 51.5509322
longitude: -0.1833781
clients: 
- labour-party
- nesta
services: 
- community-building
- game-design
- research
- strategy
technologies: 
---

## Cybernetic Games and Participatory Democracy

Digital Liberties is a co-operative applying systems thinking to individual freedom and collective decision-making in the information age.

The co-operative uses modelling to ensure that complex situations can be tackled in a realistic way that is understandable to the general public.

This modelling allows us to generate flexible simulations which can be tested through games, allowing participants to fully understand the issues and also for flaws in the model to be detected.

Our approach to democratic decision-making is rooted in developing a pragmatic approach to complex decisions using digital tools. This leads to better informed policies and practices in a wide variety of circumstances.
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								---
 								title: Digital Liberties
 								name: Digital Liberties
-												Add a members field to each file under _coops

I've populated the data, where available, from the field "Number of
current members The number of full members (owners) in the co-op." in
the wordpress admin.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 12:56:40 +00:00
+								members: 7
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								website: https://digital-liberties.coop
-												Fix & normalize Coop frontmatter YAML

Also ensure newline at EOF.

This was achieved by running the new normalize_coop_frontmatter.rb
script which basically reads in the frontmatter, parses it and dumps it
back out.

I had to manually fix some telephone numbers which had been incorrectly
parsed as some kind of number rather than as strings.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:54:12 +00:00
+								email:
 								twitter:
 								github:
 								telephone: '07908 592 835'
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								address: 44 Arkwright Road,London,NW3 6BH
-												Geocode Coop addresses to lat & long for map

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:56:07 +00:00
+								latitude: 51.5509322
 								longitude: -0.1833781
-												edits to try to fix map markers

											
										
										
											2019-07-05 18:11:54 +00:00
+								clients:
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								- labour-party
 								- nesta
-												edits to try to fix map markers

											
										
										
											2019-07-05 18:11:54 +00:00
+								services:
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								- community-building
 								- game-design
 								- research
 								- strategy
-												Fix & normalize Coop frontmatter YAML

Also ensure newline at EOF.

This was achieved by running the new normalize_coop_frontmatter.rb
script which basically reads in the frontmatter, parses it and dumps it
back out.

I had to manually fix some telephone numbers which had been incorrectly
parsed as some kind of number rather than as strings.

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 16:54:12 +00:00
+								technologies:
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								---
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
+								## Cybernetic Games and Participatory Democracy
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								Digital Liberties is a co-operative applying systems thinking to individual freedom and collective decision-making in the information age.
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								The co-operative uses modelling to ensure that complex situations can be tackled in a realistic way that is understandable to the general public.
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
-												Migrate co-op pages from old site

I ran `ruby migrate_coop_pages.rb` in `scripts`. There will need to be
some manual tidying up of the generated `.md` files under `_coops` but
I think this is a good start. As a one-off it doesn't warrant the time
it would take to improve the migration script.

											
										
										
											2018-11-10 21:16:42 +00:00
+								This modelling allows us to generate flexible simulations which can be tested through games, allowing participants to fully understand the issues and also for flaws in the model to be detected.
-												#2 Fixed markdown for coop pages

											
										
										
											2018-11-30 11:34:46 +00:00
-												edits to try to fix map markers

											
										
										
											2019-07-05 18:11:54 +00:00
+								Our approach to democratic decision-making is rooted in developing a pragmatic approach to complex decisions using digital tools. This leads to better informed policies and practices in a wide variety of circumstances.