Icelanders Approve Crowdsourced Constitution

Social media has proven successful in giving Iceland's citizens a key to the government: For the past year, the country has used Twitter, Facebook and other sites to crowdsource provisions to its new constitution, and Icelanders seem happy with the final result.

Saturday, Iceland held a referendum asking voters if they agreed to using the crowdsourced document as the frame for the new constitution -- 66% voted yes. Half of Icelands 235,000 eligible voters took part in the referendum, according to reports.

After the 2008 financial crisis put an end to Iceland's banking system and previous government, the country's original constitution -- created in 1944 -- was deemed antiquated…
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