Recently, the Chair of Democracy Earth Foundation talked about the need for alternative systems of organizing governments as opposed to the age-old nation-state during a conference put together by the Personal Democracy Forum, an organization dedicated to building new policy around “technology’s impact on government, politics, media, and democratic societies”.
Democracy Earth Foundation is part of a global effort to update governments and voting systems through modern technology. Among their efforts, Sovereign is an especially innovative solution. According to their website, “With the rise of open source software and peer to peer networks, political intermediation is no longer necessary. We are building Sovereign, an open source and decentralized democratic governance protocol for any kind of organization.” Here is some information on the speaker in the video below, Pia Mancini, from the Personal Democracy Forum:
Democracy activist, open source sustainer, co-founder at Open Collective and Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation. She worked in politics in Argentina with The Net Party, a party she co-founded and helped develop DemocracyOS, technology for democracy around the world. YCombinator Alum, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, globe-trotter and Roma’s mum. Now based in NYC.
The video of Pia Mancini’s speech is about 25 minutes. Take a look:
Daniel Jones says
Looks like “Democracy Chronicles” is doing a good job for the Ideas of “Democracy”. Well done “DC”!
Especially interesting to me, was the references, in the above article, to “Democracy Earth Foundation” and the “Personal Democracy Forum”. It’ good to see these organization have com into functionality. I plan to “click-on” and visit these.
The phrase, in the above article, “…alternative systems of organizing governments as opposed to the age-old nation-state… ” caught my eye. I think of myself as a student of self-governance development in “New Tribes”. At least the better kinds that are interested in such things. I hope, before I die, that I will encounter news of a wee new people that has studied, designed and actually constructed an efficient form of “Direct Democracy” through an enlightened and well educated self-governance system.
Adrian Tawfik says
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