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. To approach the project of universal ethics and happiness as a philosophical engineering problem, and formulate a minimal meta algorithm that lets the ‘contained substance’ (ourselves included), to live, enjoy life, create, change, love, expand, develop, in a soft, efficient flow.
One where what is is freely occurring, and ‘what better be’ according to its members, is continually heard, discussed and implemented.
The name Autogov refers both to Autonomous Governance: we govern ourselves; and Automatic Governance: once running, it all happens algorithmically except for our human choices. Government is not an entity, it is a feature.
Autogov is not a .com, i.e. a for profit Company. It is not a .org, i.e. a hierarchical Organization. It is just a .systems, i.e. a free to use in any way Metasystem.
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.
1. 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 them in the space-time-topic continuum.
Through 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.
2. 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 were decided in the Political section.
3. SOCIAL
And finally, it has a Social section, a Culture, Collaboration and friendly 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 company’s share price).
Autogov's Intro Videos
How each section works?
Politics
Economy
Social
The actual Interface
(and a few Diagrams):
Public Modules
Autogov General Features
What kind of Democracy is Autogov? It is a...
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.
We all (mostly) know by now about the massive unemployment due to automation threat due to arrive in the next decade.
Autogov with its basic income and creative market is ready to turn that threat into a freedom for humans opportunity.
As to the challenge to create a future friendly relationship and power balance between AI agents and humans, Autogov can provide two good scenarios: (1) Humans decide with expert help from AI in the debate stage of the Vontests. (2) Humans and Robots (and anything in between) debate and decide together as equal members of Autogov.
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…
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.
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.
Should a community prefer to use Bitcoin, Ethereum or any other altcoin instead of Voins, it can directly do so.
As for the decentralized security and accountability provided by Blockchain technology, there is a WordPress plugin: WP Blockchain that can easily be installed and configured to provide it for Autogov.
There are many ways you can participate and
collaborate with Autogov
FAQ
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.
Of course, there might be some organizers on a community made with Autogov as it is free to use.
Autogov was created by Barcelona Philosopher/Political Scientist Zury Asse (Mexico City 1967).
Non and both. We say it is not Left or Right but Meta.
It might be very attractive to both a certain left: as a means of economic equality and freedom and a transparent horizontal governance, and to certain right; as liberal, minimal government, decentralized, un-bureaucratic, free market society.
It is probably not attractive for the “let’s keep fighting so next year we get 5% augment on wages and 2 days more vacation days” left. Nor to the “We are superior, lets just bribe the government and increase the military” right.
Sure, you could for instance use more and extend the lapse of the Positions Vontests, lower the Basic Income, and increase the difficulty to change Metalaws.
Yes, hopefully soon. Before it’s too late.
A Political Party anywhere in the world could adopt Autogov in their party platform. It would be an autogovist party.
Sure, a lot, this is no simple task, but whatever the problem, with Autogov it’s much easier and faster to find and implement the right answer to fix them than with traditional systems.
Autogov can change its own basic functioning and constitutive laws; so a question could be asked: Is there a minimum without which it ceases to be Autogov?
The answer is the “MetaPragmatic minimum”, which means you have to provide neutral, transparent, rich, debate, which can only be achieved from a Meta perspective with free individuals; and you have to allow and foment evolution and improvement in everything, which aligns with philosophical pragmatism and the Pragmatic theory of truth.
The same as any other currency, believing in it and using it in an exchange market and a public fund.
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Autogov Step-by-Step Manuals
Some Implementation Possibilities
Intentional Community
Do you want to create a business but prefer not to decide and perform/supervise everything yourself?
Just install an Autogov with your logo, invite members/partners, define a monthly investment quota, create some tasks and positions, and use WooComerce to offer you products or services to the public.
Residential Complex
Do you want to create a business but prefer not to decide and perform/supervise everything yourself?
Just install an Autogov with your logo, invite members/partners, define a monthly investment quota, create some tasks and positions, and use WooComerce to offer you products or services to the public.
Business Company
Do you want to create a business but prefer not to decide and perform/supervise everything yourself?
Just install an Autogov with your logo, invite members/partners, define a monthly investment quota, create some tasks and positions, and use WooComerce to offer you products or services to the public.
Political Party
Do you want to create a business but prefer not to decide and perform/supervise everything yourself? Just install an Autogov with your logo, invite members/partners, define a monthly investment quota, create some tasks and positions, and use WooComerce to offer you products or services to the public.
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