Jason Hanania

the world is primed for radical change

How Technology and Democracy Can Revolutionize Governments

blockchains and the era of accountability

Democracy Earth
Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

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The world is primed for radical changes in government,” writes Jason Hanania, author of Architecture of a Technodemocracy: How Technology and Democracy Can Revolutionize Governments, Empower the 100%, and End the 1% System.

It’s a statement that is hard to argue with, especially in the face of the Freedom House statistics showing democracy has been in a decline for the past 12 years, accelerating in the past two years. It is statement hard to argue with, with the top 1% of the world’s population now owning 50.1 percent of the world’s wealth — up from 45.5 percent in 2001 and research clearly showing that individual voice has been overtaken by capital influence in policy-making.

Jason Hanania ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 on a technodemocracy platform. He is one of a vanguard of young politicians — David Ernst, Nathan Altman, Matt Wagoner — integrating representation, participation, and accountability features enabled by blockchain technology. In Jason’s case, the experience of running for office (combined with his background working in the FBI) inspired the book Architecture of a Technodemocracy.

The book can be read as a blueprint on how to leverage current government processes, communications systems, and blockchain security to take the next step in the evolution of human government.

By harnessing technology that already exists, we can nonviolently reshape our respective governments.

As Jason notes in his book, for the adoption of a governance platform — such as Sovereign being developed by Democracy Earth Foundation — the cooperation of modern politicians is not a requirement (indeed, Sovereign is described in the technical white paper The Social Smart Contract as enabling democracy from the ‘bottom up’.)

The technodemocracy detailed in Architecture of a Technodemocracy can be created without spending any tax dollars, passing any new laws, or otherwise turning to career politicians for leadership.The vision that Jason Hanania puts forth aligns with the oft-stated vision of Santiago Siri of Democracy Earth — author of Hacktivism — a vision first put forth by Buckminster Fuller, to wit: “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”

Santi Siri co-founder, Democracy Earth Foundation

What both Architecture and Democracy Earth propose is not disruption so much as it is an update to the current system/institutions of governance — pre-digital, nation-state bound, and unable to deal with the pressing global issues, such as climate change and refugees, that impact us all.

Like Bitcoin, technodemocracy uses readily available technologies to decentralize power from the 1% to the 100%. Its principles can be applied to any nation.

~Jason Hanania, author, Architecture of a Technodemocracy, candidate for US Senate 2016

Democracy Earth cofounder Pia Mancini delivers the keynote at NYU 2018 Personal Democracy Forum

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