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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 governance methods: alternatives inquest liquid democracy 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 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
• 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"

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."