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From Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people
The objective of the Metagovernment project is to enable individuals to be much more involved in their own governance, instead of relying on career politicians to take care of the important decisions in their life.
To that end, we are supporting the development and use of internet tools which enable the members of any community to fully participate in the governance of that community. We are a global group of people working on various projects which further this goal.
We expect governance software to be adopted first in small communities, and then to spread outward with the potential to gradually replace many institutions of representative democracy with a new kind of social organization called collaborative governance.
We conceive a world where every person, without exception, is able to substantively participate in the governance of any community in which they have an interest. We envision governance which is not only more open, free, and democratic; but also which is more effective and less fallible than pre-Internet forms of governance.
Participating projects
There are a number of active projects, among many similar projects, that are being developed by members of Metagovernment:
- Adhocracy — A drafting and (delegated) voting tool for small and medium-sized groups
- Candiwi — Wiki software based on consensus, synthesis, and a distributed framework ("candid distributed wiki").
- DemocracyLab — Software using participants' posts and votes to build a dynamic map of political thought designed to facilitate consensus and solve problems.
- Dynamic Democracy — An experiment that lets its users suggest and vote on bills that they wish the government was considering.
- Eudemocracia — Argentinian NGO. Same mission as Metagovernment, although activism oriented.
- Indaba Application Network — The platform running WeVote (on Facebook) and ChoiceRanker.
- NationBuilder — The platform running The White House 2, and a growing number of other systems.
- Openpolitics — Canadian wiki based project for deliberation on political issues.
- Telematics Freedom Foundation — Promotes democracy, including media and global democracy, through the promotion of telematic solutions (see linked page for list).
- Vilfredo goes to Athens — Software which uses mathematical formulae to help participants build a consensus on an open question.
- Virtual Parliament - UK site allowing anyone to suggest and vote on policies.
- Votorola — Software for building consensus and reaching decisions on local, national and global levels.
- Votetocracy — US site allowing citizens to vote on bills in Congress and send those votes to representatives.
How you can help
There are many ways you can contribute, as detailed on the participate page.
Contact
To ask questions of this group, please join our list server. If you do not want your question posted to the list, write to contact (at) metagovernment (dot) org.
