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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 to invent functional and productive techniques of stateless (non-hierarchical) democratic self-governance to test and demonstrate these techniques starting on a small scale and working progressively upward to watch for exploit holes and "gaming" of these implementations, and work out ways to defeat these while they are still small to eventually make traditional government both unnecessary and irrelevant In order to work towards these goals, it is necessary to better understand the mechanics of power.

External Pages Design documents Philosophy Project manager / bug tracker Google+: page and community

Modules liquid agenda debate mapper P2P Accountability Enforcement categorization proxy voting weighted

Methodology cooperatives governance methods: alternatives inquest liquid democracy liquid representation rational debate stages of change

Applications democratic militia federated retail structured debate: a set of rules for rational debate solutions to the taxation problem: co-operatization of large companies opt-in market socialism socialized land ownership

Presentation Collaborative network Circling the wagons International Citizens' Union Premises Structural overview Social business coalition Solutions US House of Commons

Related Projects

• 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
  • software co-op
• 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."

discussion

• Quora

plans

• Equality Incorporated (discussion)
• Wolf PAC
• 2013-07-31 How Democrats can reclaim North Carolina government