DemocracyOS in Australia- an introduction
It’s going to be an online, democratic voting platform- a way of establishing and promoting the will of the people.
On it you will be able to draft polls, proposals and questions, allowing all other users of the site to vote on them. It will be democratic, with each person having the same power as any other; one person, one vote.
Once a critical mass of users make use of the site on a given issue, it can begin to influence policy.
I’d also see it as a place which can become something of a commons online, and detract from the echo chamber hyper-partisanship which seems to have become the norm online.
Here is a link to the site.
In terms of it’s current technical capacity it’s still in it’s early stages; most notably only admins can draft votes at the moment, and it can’t handle too much content with much elegance.
I’m using it to post interesting and current topics online, whilst holding offline events discussing the issues at hand. It should be good.
We could always use more help, so if it strikes you as something you’d like to support, please contact me at eamonnoflaherty2@gmail.com, or join the facebook group.