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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

External Pages

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

Modules

• liquid agenda
• debate mapper
• reputation management
• categorization
• proxy voting

Methodology

• federated retail
• governance methods: alternatives
• inquest
• liquid democracy
• rational debate
• stages of change
• structured debate: a set of rules for rational debate
• solutions to the taxation problem:
  • co-operatization of large companies
    • minimum profit distribution: a minimum portion of profit must be given to employees and the community
  • opt-in market socialism
  • socialized land ownership

Related Projects

• 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
• PopVox (Google+): tell US Congress your opinion of bills

techniques

• 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."