Professor Cesar A. Hidalgo recently attended the World Economic Forum and talked about the future of online forms of political participation. He outlined the need to push three agendas (i) a research agenda, geared towards understanding the issues and ranges of relevant participation (ii) a design agenda, looking at the creation of engaging tools, and (iii) a political agenda, that gets the needed buy-in from the current political establishment. He concluded by discussing the promises and limitations of direct forms of online political participation.