Practical Guide: Organising a Human Parliament

What can I learn?

A practical guide to defending the human face of digital technology through participatory lawmaking. The "Human Parliament" is a method for building collective laws, rules or demands from lived experience; it produced the Code Humain du Numérique, a citizens' self-proclaimed law developed since 2021 through workshops and encounters across Brussels and Wallonia.

Core insight

Rules about digital life do not have to be handed down by experts: people affected by digital exclusion can author their own demands collectively, starting from what they actually experience.

How to use it in daily work

A facilitation method for turning clients' frustrations with digital systems into structured, collective demands rather than isolated complaints.

• Use the Human Parliament format to run a session where clients articulate what a fair, human digital service would look like to them.
• Draw on the Code Humain du Numérique as a Belgium-grounded example of citizen-led digital-rights work.