Help Build The Diggocracy
25 February 2007 by adminWe need interested people. Programmers, philosophers and avid social media users, come and help us build a new open source political party. Register on this site and leave a comment, I’ll promote your account and you can start blogging away.
Current Focus: Does a group end up dividing a community?
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7 Responses to “Help Build The Diggocracy”
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
This could possibly be one of the best political ideas out there!
(thanks to stubmleupon for bringing me here!)
March 4th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
What a fabulous idea (not least of which beacuse I indepentantly thought of it myself). I would like to make a few suggestions.
1. Allow people to donate money to the party online via Paypal or some other means.
2. Allow users to reccomend and create campaign slogans, banners, flyers, etc on your site so others can dowload and print them.
3. The party position (IMHO) should be that the elected offical will vote according to how registered voters tell him/her how to vote on the party’s site. The party would hold its elected officials acountable. In this way, voters would really only be voting in a person who will vote to their collective preference.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Please ask for the Boston City Council stenographic machine output and for the transcription of the machine output. The more enquiries that are made for the public record of the Council will make the remarks and debate of the Councilors more available for review and comment. Here’s the contact link
http://cityofboston.gov/contact/default.asp?id=36
March 8th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Sounds awesome!
March 27th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Ok finally got down to registering. I’m committed to this. what’s the plan of action guys? I bring some expertise from the citizen lab if that’s of any use
June 9th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I arrived here from a Wikipedia entry. Is there a mission statement or a position paper … I’d like to understand better what the group is pursuing?
October 19th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
i have been musing on open source governance for some time now and am pleased to find more and more initiatives and articles on it everyday. i think it’s great that you guys are doing this!
we need to keep in mind that true open source politics will only be built around a sort of swarm intelligence. like wikipedia (sort of) it will have a mind of it’s own, and will mold and blossom in an organic way, as long as everything is transparent and increased responsibility is directly linked with increased trust.
that said, i believe a open source social networking site of sorts needs to be initiated. everything down to the very foundation of the site MUST be transparent and it must center around involvement. good contributions are rewarded by the swarm with increased trust, while bad contributions are reprimanded with decreased trust.
there is a lot more that can be said but for now i will leave you with a couple more considerations:
1) whoever begins the site must be prepared to leave any illusions of ownership at the door. no one owns it and even those initiating the site could potentially be completely rejected by the swarm later on.
2) the solution to this problem will take awhile to work out. it is not a matter of a simple mass vote, but a dynamic system of finding the sharpest needle in a needle stack. the masses alone cannot do this.
3) i suggest that perhaps starting with a simple business initiative, like a coffee house. “The Open Source Coffee House Initiative” or whatever. around this simple idea an entire platform for dealing with all aspects of the business (accounting, marketing, construction, hiring, operations, etc…) would be developed, allowing for the best suggestions to turn into changes. suddenly we find we have a chain of coffee houses running more efficiently than any other in history because of
a) transparency of operation
b) trust based responsibility
c) dynamic and flexible solutions.
oh, and their success is also are a huge peg for open source solutions.
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i can not stress enough that the system for dealing with the system must itself be open source.
i hope this helps.
jacob cammack