pave the way to the success of digital direct democracy

1. PERFECT (DIRECT) DEMOCRACY
EVERY CITIZEN HAS EQUAL VOICE
EVERY CITIZEN HAS EQUAL POWER

2. DIRECT DEMOCRACY
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS
IT TAKES MORE THAN A DAY TO REACH A FAR AWAY CITY
WE’ VE GOT A PROBLEM

3. YOU ARE OUR REPRESENTANT
YOU HAVE THE POWER
WE HAVE A CONTRACT
SOLUTION:
WE HAVE NOTICED THAT
VOTES/POWER IN A
REPRESENTATIVE
PARLIAMENT CAN BE
HIJACKED BY VESTED
INTERESTS

4. DIGITAL DIRECT DEMOCRACY
YOU ARE MY REPRESENTANT
BUT YOU MUST INFORM ME ON THE SUBJECT AND YOU CAN ONLY VOTE
ACCORDING TO THE VOTE I HAVE PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED TO YOU, BY
MEANS OF INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

5. THIS SEEMS TO BE A PERFECT SOLUTION
INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION
TECHNLOGIES HAVE REMOVED THE NEED FOR
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

6. FURTHERMORE
ANY NEW OR OLD POLITICAL PARTY HAS
ALREADY MANY ICT CHANNELS TO
COMMUNICATE WITH CITIZENS
MANY RECENT POLITICAL PARTIES
HAVE A DIGITAL DIRECT
DEMOCRACY PLEDGE
DOES THIS SEEMS AN EASY ROAD FOR
DDD?

7. I WONDER …
WILL A DDD PARTY ACCEPT A ROLE IN THE
EXECUTIVE POWER?
CAN YOU ASK YOUR CITIZENS ABOUT EVERYDAY
RESOLUTIONS ?
JOKING, BUT A CIVIL SERVANT ASKS PERMISSION
TO GO ON HOLIDAYS, MUST YOU CONSULT
CITIZENS?

8. BIG TROUBLE AHEAD …
WILL A DDD PARTY CHANGE
THE NATIONAL BUDGET
WHENEVER CITIZENS MAKE
SUCH A WISH ?
WILL A DDD PARTY ACCEPT A
VOTE THAT DRIVES
RESOURCES TO THE
PREFERENCES OF A
MAJORITY OF VOTERS
DEPRIVING OTHERS OF SUCH
A FAVOUR ?
WILL A DDD PARTY TRY TO SATISFY
EVERYONE AND GET PUBLIC DEFICIT, LOTS
OF SPENDING, NO LONG TERM
INVESTEMENT ?

9. I AM SCARED ABOUT THIS IDEA OF
DIGITAL DIRECT DEMOCRACY
THIS SEEMS A ECONOMIC CIVIL WAR
I ENVISAGE GROUPS TAKING PLACE TO BARGAIN WITH OTHER GROUPS TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THE SYSTEM
WHILE NON-ORGANIZED CITIZEN LOOSE POWER
MINORITIES BEING DISFAVOURED
THAT WOULD BE A RETURN TO THE OLD
DAYS OF CORRUPTION AND ABUSE

10. THAT IS WHY WE NEED TO PUT FORWARD A
NEW POLITICAL DESIGN THAT PUTS
DIGITAL DIRECT DEMOCRACY
ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS

11. WHO ?
INSTITUTIONS, FORMAL AND INFORMAL GROUPS
THAT SUPPORT ANY FORM OF CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
CROWD SOURCING ORGANIZATIONS
AND THEIR CITIZENS, COMMUNITIES, FAMILIES
TRANSPARENCY ADVOCATES AND INVESTIGATORS
ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
SCHOLARS
INSTITUTIONS DEVOTED TO DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONS DEVOTED TO THE ENDOWMENT OF
DEMOCRACY
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

12. HOW?
ON A INTERNET PLATFORM
DISCUSSION
ARGUMENTATION
DATA SHARING
SCIENCE
DISCUSSION

13. RESULT:
A FRAMEWORK
POLITICAL (INSTITUTIONS, PROCEDURES)
SOCIAL (INTEGRATION, COOPERATION, COMPETITION)
ECONOMIC (VIABILITY OF CHOICES)
ENVIRONMENTAL (SUSTAINABLE)
THAT ENSURES THAT WHEN AND
WHERE A PARLIAMENT HAS A MODERATE TO HIGH NUMBER OF DELEGATES
FROM DDD PARTIES, THIS SITUATION WILL FOSTER A BETTER FUTURE FOR
THE COMMUNITY (NATION OR OTHER)

14. CHALANGERS
THE CURRENT CONGLOMERATE OF NATIONAL POWERS (TRADITIONAL
POLITICAL PARTIES, CORPORATE INTERESTS, VESTED INTERESTS DEPENDENT
MEDIA, MAINSTREAM OPINION MAKERS)
SUPRA-NATIONAL POWER CENTERS WHO RULE IN ANY POSSIBLE WAY:
INDEPENDENTLY OF GOVERNMENTS
CAPTIVATING GOVERNMENTS
CORRUPTING PARLIAMENTS AND NGO’s
BLACKMAILING COMMUNITIES
BRIBING OFFICIALS

15. THIS IS A OPEN ROAD
THE JOURNEY IS A COLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE
BUT LET ME SHOW YOU MY WAY
HOPE YOU ENJOY
AND
GET READY TO ACTION

16. an updated human rights chart
Adding, among others
the right to a natural life and the use of natural resources,
ICT inclusiveness,
social inclusiveness through professional activity and progress in leisure time

17. a new economic approach that
reduces extreme dependency on exterior decisions and actors,
as freedom is impaired by dependency

18. a declaration of
the need to
eliminate the
use of ideology
to shape a
political party
(“canned”).
Instead, each
digital
democracy
party must have
a science based
development
strategy.
Voters choose
the party
according to this
strategy

19. Note on ‘canned’ political parties:
You would like to state your ideas and preferences, but as you
are doing thousands of choices, voting yes to every item in the
candidate's program of that particular political party, actually,
you are buying a canned product (and you know how
processed food is detrimental to your health).
You are forbidden to say party A has a good idea on subject 1,
party B has a good idea on subject 2, just vote in one pack
(brand/logo/ideology) and get back in 4 years time!

20. a declaration of the need
to create a new political
institution:
political parties that
exclusively aim the
executive power

21. a systems approach to
politics:
first, voters choose
legislative parties,
then the chamber
harmonizes a winning
strategy,
then calls an election to
the executive power.
Executive political parties
that are at ease with the
chosen strategy run for the
election

22. a declaration that every bond (public/private or private/private)
that exerts relevant action on the community
is under that community jurisdiction
and can be scrutinized by a court of law

23. IN SHORT
THOUGH THIS NOT SHORT OF A
PARADIGM SHIFT
THIS IS A NEW
POLITICAL ANATOMY AND PHISIOLOGY

24. THE PRESENT DAY MODEL OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

25. DIGITAL DIRECT DEMOCRACY