I'd love to see research on shaking up governments and the existing political process with technology.
Now, there are flaws to the use of electronic voting systems and the level of transparency required, but that is not what I mean.
What I mean is that every time I have run a large community the social structure that naturally emerges is not the one that we all allow ourselves to be governed by.
I'd like to research how tech could be used to empower lay citizens to shape their society in the way that they imagine it should be.
For example; I was interested in Google's internal experiment with voting transparency and delegation, and how it allows for a different kind of inclusive democratic process that isn't reflected in our existing systems.
One of the moonshot goals of the forum/community startup I created was to start to provide tools to support communities that shaped their own political and social structures, with an express goal of training them in the possibilities of being engaged in their society and then letting them use the tools to shape the real world in the same way that they shaped online societies.
Simply, I'd love to see research and later innovation into how societies and democratic functions could be.
When we talk about changing the world, I really mean it.
Now, there are flaws to the use of electronic voting systems and the level of transparency required, but that is not what I mean.
What I mean is that every time I have run a large community the social structure that naturally emerges is not the one that we all allow ourselves to be governed by.
I'd like to research how tech could be used to empower lay citizens to shape their society in the way that they imagine it should be.
For example; I was interested in Google's internal experiment with voting transparency and delegation, and how it allows for a different kind of inclusive democratic process that isn't reflected in our existing systems.
One of the moonshot goals of the forum/community startup I created was to start to provide tools to support communities that shaped their own political and social structures, with an express goal of training them in the possibilities of being engaged in their society and then letting them use the tools to shape the real world in the same way that they shaped online societies.
Simply, I'd love to see research and later innovation into how societies and democratic functions could be.
When we talk about changing the world, I really mean it.