The open-source world stands as a legitimate model for how democracies should work. This is the concept behind Clay Shirky’s TEDTalk “How the Internet will (one day) transform government.” Describing how hosting services like GitHub have allowed for “cooperation without coordination” in their formation of large and complex communities built upon ideas, Shirky argues that democracies can do the same in strategizing ways to be not just transparent, but also drawing on the knowledge and ideas of all its citizens. “The people experimenting with participation don’t have legislative power,” he tells the audience. “And the people who have legislative power are not experimenting with participation.” Cooperation between the two actors must come into play so that citizens can put their ideas and arguments into circulation and create a democracy truly participatory in nature.