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InstaGov is a set of tools for instant self-governance via computer network. It is currently under development. It will be open-source and distributed/federated.
Goals
In order to work towards these goals, it is necessary to better understand the mechanics of power. Restrictions on the sampling of public opinion, and its conversion into binding decisions, are a thing which may once have been necessary but which is now basically preventing democracy from taking place. "restrictions on the sampling of public opinion" means:
Proposed changes (there are some details to work out in each of these, but this is the basic idea):
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Related Projects
- CitizenOS: proprietary decisionmaking platform
- DemocracyOS: liquid democracy implementation (via via author on Mastodon): code is on GitHub
- Liquid Agenda and the Debate Mapper could probably benefit from having a UI like this, at least as an option. (author on Mastodon)
- The Humanity Online Project
- Loomio
- Liquid Feedback (a project of the Pirate Party)
- Make Your Laws: main site .. wiki .. Google+
proprietary / centralized
- Deliberator: very similar to Liquid Agenda, but more heavily moderated and produced
- Kialo: similar to debate mapper
- Loomio: "a user-friendly tool for group decision-making. Creating a world where it’s easy for anyone to participate in decisions that affect them." Subscription is pay-what-you-like; looks like interaction may be limited to "groups".
- Participedia "open global knowledge community for researchers and practitioners in the field of democratic innovation and public engagement."
- PopVox (Google+): tell US Congress your opinion of bills
- WikiVote "Russian non-governmental organization which goal is to develop effective means of citizens’ participation in lawmaking and strategic planning"
- The Spark "Users post and vote on PROBLEMS that we face as a global community. The most popular problems are voted to the top. Users then post and vote on SOLUTIONS so that the community can take ACTION." - sounds similar to liquid agenda
techniques
- wikipedia:Participatory politics: hierarchical representation carried out more thoroughly
- Professional Politicians Beware! by Aaron Swartz (via)
- wikipedia:Rational consensus: the method is not currently described in the article, but perhaps the article will be expanded soon. A user has described this system thusly: "ideas are based on known facts and good practices."