Self-Government Platform for Communities
What should be the future of
human organization?
The world is evolving rapidly in the 21st century, the rate of its change is actually accelerating exponentially. Yet, the way communities organize themselves to best reflect their members wills and achieve their goals, is basically the same as two centuries ago. Everywhere you look you see evidence that change is needed, and if we look ahead to what is coming, that change is critical. Autogov is an attempt to address that need. To harness the power of the internet, and create a softer, more efficient way of political, economic and social organization.
Three main Sections
Autogov has 3 sections that work in synergy, however they can also function independently, and communities can choose to use only one or two of them.
POLITICS
At its most basic, Autogov is an internet software that enables communities of any size to take the decisions that best reflect the will of its members about any issue that affects it in the space-time-topic continuum.
Trough its meta and neutral basic structural units called Vontests, composed by: a question raising a problem or need, unlimited answers, structured debate, and cumulative voting; it is able to generate laws, actions, tasks and positions in a continuous, dynamic, transparent, genuinely direct-democracy way. Everyone has access to everything, but focuses on what is important or interesting to her/him.
ECONOMY
Making good decisions is important, but you also need power and freedom to execute them. That is the basic purpose of the Economy section. It has a Creative Market where members are encouraged and enabled to offer what they are really passionate about (possibly several different things).
It has its own internal virtual currency so as to generate its own value, a universal basic income and a public fund, so that the members can strive to live in freedom working on their passions, and the community as a whole can have the power to stand on its own and advance towards whatever goals where decided in the Political section.
SOCIAL
And finally, it has a Social section, a Culture, Collaboration and Competition space where members can communicate with each other, express their creativity, forge partnerships and groups, collaborate and compete in a gamified environment aimed at encouraging participation and having fun.
This can be as modest as a messaging and notification system or as ambitious as a whole social network, only much better since the only objective is us all (not raising some share price).
How each section works?
The actual Interface:
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Autogov General Features
Sure, we each think we know better, or that the experts we prefer do. But when it comes to “what is best for us all”, there is no real expertise to learn, and there are alleged experts in favor of all contradictory opinions.
We should, and can only, trust ourselves, and that trust will in turn promote through time and facilitate the inclusion and optimization of everybody into the debate.
Everybody can do everything, directly, should she want to.
To avoid dependence and exploitation, and to ensure independence of voting and debate, users most feel secure in life and thus total gained resources should be distributed among users assuring a universal basic income. Without this minimum playing field the system is rigged and bound to fail.
Each part knows better about itself than the rest. As long as it does not directly affect the freedom of the rest, it should be free to choose about itself.
Confidence and accountability is essential. In Autogov, everything is public by default, except for personal and group communications. But even those are logged and, should there be an important incidence, can be consulted.
With Autogov there is no need to ask for money or for power or for permission. The community creates its own money, power and legitimacy, and is therefore independent and resilient.
Can you imagine the feeling of knowing that every time you come home frustrated from something or every time you get outraged from reading the news, you actually can do something about it immediately?
Why do we say ‘creative’ market? Is it just a marketing term? We believe, once automation and technology create enough abundance, humans will discover their creativity. We believe creativity in every sphere will become more and more essential in the human experience.
Let us divide every issue into its smallest components and carefully analyze its pros and cons, refine it, variate it, simulate it, compare it, mix it. (“Shake well before voting”) A lot of the extremism, anger and impotence in current 2OptionsPer4Years democracies will be solved just with that.
Al issues remain open for further debate, refinement, nudging and re-voting after they have been decided some way or other. Its all permanently softly rebalancing like a liquid. The frequency of a decision, the notoriety it gets, the credibility of any user, all vary according to time and topic and balance…
Through the Internet and Software a level of flexible interaction is possible without which it was mechanichally impossible to effectuate a Ddddddemocracy.
In the space-time-topic continuum. Whereas in todays democracies or todays community meetings few questions can be addressed at the same time and those take weeks to properly discuss and decide, in the dynamic always on internet, every second, every topic or tag, everybody can participate all the time. Plus decisions can be broken down to their most elemental questions, and often only that makes for easier decision making
Hate how some question was voted and decided? Already seeing something didn’t work as expected? No need to wait 4 years or even a month. The debate is continuous and if the leading answer in any ongoing Vontest changes, a new Votography is automatically set.
We can be proud of the freedoms we have gained, but, if we have to dedicate our time to something we don’t care about and obey our often stupid bosses or else we starve, how free we really are? Real freedom to do what we want with our life (within the no harm limits of course) is within reach in our times through the super efficient mechanism of UBI. With Autogov, with its independent and democratic currency, the implementation of it becomes much easier.
One of the main fears of people when faced with the prospect of doing the political decisions themselves is boredom or tedious. Through its gamification tools, Autogov can make participating in society an existential game. Each community can give this more or less importance by assigning monetary or just recognition awards.
How can you participate and collaborate with Autogov?
You can use Autogov in your community
in two modalities:
Hosted Subdomain with Support
If you prefer the more protected road. The professional team that coded Autogov will help you install, host, customize to your needs, and give you technical support along your way.
The providers are completely independent of Autogov.
Become a Distribuitor.
Setup and customization: 350€
Monthly hosting and support: 50€
WordPress Theme
This is the freest and most immediate way but it requires some technical knowledge. In it you (or your site admin or that guy in your community who knows about computers) install WordPress with the Autogov theme following a basic guide. You can use the users forum for support. Autogov is free under the terms of the GNU License.
FAQ
Here you can fin the frequantly asked questions
Nothing, Autogov is all free always. This is necessary for its complete transparency and thus credibility.
No one is, we all are. That’s the whole point.
No, only a method of enquiry, an inspiration, a geometry, we can call it NothingAllSomeGroupMe with MetaPragmaDynamic flow
Non and both. It is actually very atractive and a platform to explore the next step to both certain left: as a means of economic equality, sheltered freedom and transparent horizontal government, and to certain right; as liberal, minimal government, decentralized, unbeourocratic, free market.
It is bad for the next yer we eill get 7% augment on wages left. or the i am better than them lets bribe the government right.
Sure, using more the Positions Vontests and the Metalaws.
I mean, yeah, hopefully soon. Before it’s too late
Sure, but with Autogov its much easier to find the right answer all through time.
Colaborate with
Autogov
There are several ways you can participate and contribute:
1. As a developer/designer:
Github
Are you a developer? Would you like to help build the future? Please join the team…
2. Distributor
Would you like to offer installation/customization/hosting/support packages of Autogov
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