What could/should be thefuture 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.
How it works?
The name of Autogov implies both, autonomous and automatized goverment
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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 directdemocracy way.
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. 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
A Culture, Collaboration and Competition space And finally, it has a Social section 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.
This can be as modest as a messaging and notification system or as ambitious as a whole social network, only with
How each section works
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The political section is the ship’s rudder, and it works through a decision-making algorithm called Vontest (from Voted Contest)
A Vontest is composed of:
1. A Question. We always start with a question describing a problem or need. Even if what prompted your participation was a proposal, you are asked to first describe the question that your proposal pretends to answer, and in that way allow for other alternative plans. Any member can post a question at any time. Example: What do we do with the abandoned factory on Bleeker st.?
2. Multiple Answers. The proposals to fix that problem or fulfill that opportunity in the best possible way. Any member can post an answer at any time. Example: We should transform it into a museum. We should demolish it and make a park there. We should build affordable housing.
3. Debate the answers. What are the Pros and Cons of each proposal? Can they be further refined or combined to gain support? Any member can comment on any answer at any time.
Example: No one ever goes to the other museum we have. A park would be great for air quality. Special attention is taken to weather an answer is in conflict with a previous law or resolution. If so it is marked and should it win, a vontest resolving that conflict follows.
4. Cumulative Voting. To make preferences more accurate, promote attention to all answers, and avoid the cornell effect, Autogov uses a simple cumulative voting mechanism: You dispose of 10 votes per question, but can assign maximum 4 to a single answer. Any member can vote, and modify her vote, at any moment on any answer.
Example: 4 votes to answer 2, 3 votes to answer 5 and 1 vote to answer 4 (you are not forced to use all your 10 votes).
5. A Votography (from Votes Photography). When the Question was created, a Votography date was set. That is when all votes are tallied and a winer answer is declared. All members who participated in the Vontest or are subscribed to the Vontest’s topic are notified of the Votography imminence.
Example: Answer 1=31votes, Answer 2=62v, and so on. Note: Some vontests are ongoing and remain open after the Votography for another round.
6. A Resolution that implements the winning proposal. Depending on the content of the proposal
this can be an execution order for an action, or the creation of another Vontest to determine
who will take care to execute the order. Any member can compete to implement the winning
answer.
Example: Creation of a new Vontest: Who takes care of demolishing the old factory
and build a park in its place?
This section is like the ship’s engine or sails, empowering the passengers to have a pleacent journey and reach their desired destination.
It has the following components:
1. An virtual currency called Voins (from Virtual Coins). Its monetary policy is decided through the Vontests in Politics, having as main aim its credibility and preservation of its value. If that is achieved the Voins provide maximum independence and power to the community. The use of Voins can be combined with the use of the local fiat currency.
2. A Creative Market, where users can acquire and offer unlimited services, products and events and receive bookings and payment in Voins or fiat. Members can sell to outside the community too (in fiat). All offered items can be reviewed to promote quality and fairness.
3. A Basic Income in Voins (and in fiat if available) to guarantee that members are free to dedicate their time to what is meaningful to them and avoid poverty and exploitation.
4. An Accumulation Ceiling of Voins (ACV) to prevent excessive power on one part which could damage the balance and correct functioning of the whole, which would be undesirable even for that part. The amount or percentage of this ceiling is determined in a special vontest and could be 0% if so voted.
5. A Public Fund whose spending is decided in another Special (Constitutional) Vontest: what should we spend our public fund on? Here There can be more than one winner, all those on top that manage to enter its limit.
All laws and rates in the Economy section are decided through Vontests in the Political section.
That transparency provides it with credibility and confidence.
This section is like the ship’s plaza or pub, allowing members to express themselves, learn,
mingle, communicate, join forces, and play.
Its components are:
1. Groups. From a small club, to a big company to an ideological movement, any association of members to pursue an end within the community is a Group.
2. Culture. Blogs, galleries.
3. Members profiles
4. The Games
5. Community News
6. Internal messaging and notifications
Tasks
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Positions
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Public Fund
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News and Warnings
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Metalaws (Constitution)
Autogov strives to be as neutral and meta a structure as possible. A transparent glass to contain
and transform the liquid content living within it. It intents to be a Nothing that facilitates All and
then selects the Best of each from it.
However, even a glass requires some limits that give the whole stability and long term confidence.
For that purpose we introduce the Metalaws.
These special laws can only be changed by a special majority (by default 75%)
For example, this are some of the metalaws Autogov starts with:
1. The Golden Rule
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2. The Autonomy Principle
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3. No one above, no one behind in terms of static power
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4. Altruism equals long term thought Egoism
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5. If freedom for all is possible then that first
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6. No one knows what is good, only the vontests do
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Our features
Here you con find our 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.
A Vontest is composed of:
1. A Question. We always start with a question describing a problem or need. Even if what prompted your participation was a proposal, you are asked to first describe the question that your proposal pretends to answer, and in that way allow for other alternative plans. Any member can post a question at any time. Example: What do we do with the abandoned factory on Bleeker st.?
2. Multiple Answers. The proposals to fix that problem or fulfill that opportunity in the best possible way. Any member can post an answer at any time. Example: We should transform it into a museum. We should demolish it and make a park there. We should build affordable housing.
3. Debate the answers. What are the Pros and Cons of each proposal? Can they be further refined or combined to gain support? Any member can comment on any answer at any time.
Example: No one ever goes to the other museum we have. A park would be great for air quality. Special attention is taken to weather an answer is in conflict with a previous law or resolution. If so it is marked and should it win, a vontest resolving that conflict follows.
4. Cumulative Voting. To make preferences more accurate, promote attention to all answers, and avoid the cornell effect, Autogov uses a simple cumulative voting mechanism: You dispose of 10 votes per question, but can assign maximum 4 to a single answer. Any member can vote, and modify her vote, at any moment on any answer.
Example: 4 votes to answer 2, 3 votes to answer 5 and 1 vote to answer 4 (you are not forced to use all your 10 votes).
5. A Votography (from Votes Photography). When the Question was created, a Votography date was set. That is when all votes are tallied and a winer answer is declared. All members who participated in the Vontest or are subscribed to the Vontest’s topic are notified of the Votography imminence.
Example: Answer 1=31votes, Answer 2=62v, and so on. Note: Some vontests are ongoing and remain open after the Votography for another round.
6. A Resolution that implements the winning proposal. Depending on the content of the proposal
this can be an execution order for an action, or the creation of another Vontest to determine
who will take care to execute the order. Any member can compete to implement the winning
answer.
Example: Creation of a new Vontest: Who takes care of demolishing the old factory
and build a park in its place?
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.
It has the following components:
1. An virtual currency called Voins (from Virtual Coins). Its monetary policy is decided through the Vontests in Politics, having as main aim its credibility and preservation of its value. If that is achieved the Voins provide maximum independence and power to the community. The use of Voins can be combined with the use of the local fiat currency.
2. A Creative Market, where users can acquire and offer unlimited services, products and events and receive bookings and payment in Voins or fiat. Members can sell to outside the community too (in fiat). All offered items can be reviewed to promote quality and fairness.
3. A Basic Income in Voins (and in fiat if available) to guarantee that members are free to dedicate their time to what is meaningful to them and avoid poverty and exploitation.
4. An Accumulation Ceiling of Voins (ACV) to prevent excessive power on one part which could damage the balance and correct functioning of the whole, which would be undesirable even for that part. The amount or percentage of this ceiling is determined in a special vontest and could be 0% if so voted.
5. A Public Fund whose spending is decided in another Special (Constitutional) Vontest: what should we spend our public fund on? Here There can be more than one winner, all those on top that manage to enter its limit.
All laws and rates in the Economy section are decided through Vontests in the Political section.
That transparency provides it with credibility and confidence.
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.
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…
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.
Through the Internet and Software a level of flexible interaction is possible without which it was mechanichally impossible to effectuate a Ddddddemocracy.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 do you implement Autogov!
You can use Autogov in your community in two modalities
Hosted Subdomain with Support
If you prefer the more protected road
Setup and customization: 350€
Monthly hosting and support: 50€
WordPress Theme
This is the easiest and most immediate way, just (you or your site admin or your friend who knows about computers) install WordPress with the Autogov plugin. You can use the users forum at … for support
FAQ
Here you can fin the frequantly asked questions
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autogov
There are several ways you can participate and contribute:
1. universe.autogov.systems
Register in the first and most meta Autogov at universe.autogov.system and begin participating politically, economically and socially.
2. Github
Are you a developer? Would you like to help build the future? Please join the team…
3. Distributor
Would you like to offer installation/customization/hosting/support packages of Autogov?
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