Welcome to 21st Century Representation
The Internet Government is a platform created to represent ideas themselves. We’re looking to create a better process for policy-making, and by better we mean more objective, more transparent, & more inclusive. We mean a more rigorous process in the pursuit of truth, for everyone’s benefit. It’s politics without the politics - and without the politicians.
We are a Platinum Transparent Program of a nonprofit organization.
We’re a non-profit, non-partisan, non-governmental program reinventing the legislative process. Why? We just think the whole business of creating public policy could be more transparent, difficult to the corrupt, and verifiably representative of everyone. It’s a huge undertaking (and we encourage you to learn more about it below), but you can help us! So, join us, donate, follow us online, or get a citizenship to help out the cause!
With technology, we can finally upgrade the way we participate in government
Imagine:
The most informed and inclusive nation-wide debates possible
research-driven policy development without the politics
Totally inclusive and transparent representation
The online E-Lightenment model
Abstract Meritocracy
By performing content analysis using a decentralized, anonymized, inter-coded, public-participatory framework, volunteers can help process qualitative data which informs arguments on all sides of debates on persistent human rights and resource issues. By breaking down the points made in any perspective, they can be reconstructed into more comprehensive argument frameworks, which are then presented as if they respond to each other; enabling the most comprehensive and complex debate on any important issue possible.
Perspectives, not people
The Internet Government is a system of representation of perspectives, not people. Your voice in place of a vote. Imagine if all socio-political perspectives, and all the research, reason, and rhetoric which supports them could directly debate each other. Instead of electing politicians to represent socio-political perspectives and carry out deliberations, people may directly upload their own perspectives to the system. The system manages how people operate within this bicameral inter-coding system to overcome the tyranny of the majority, corruption, collusion, and bias; welcoming a new age of reason.
Merit, Not Majority
Traditionally, decisions are made in a democracy by consensus of a majority, however in this system, decisions are made by meeting a more sophisticated mathematical threshold when legislation responds to arguments of merit on every side of an issue. Merit is assessed by assigning established classifications of logic, knowledge, evidence, etc., identified by anonymized, collaborative, content analysis coders working within a judicial-style hierarchical system. Merit is not to identify "debate winners" but to assist in curating legitimate arguments and identifying incorrigible conflicts in values to which legislation will have to respond.
programmed w/o politics
We rely on politicians to articulate our views in government, but there are limits to how well representatives (and humans in general) can participate in meaningful, honest, unbiased, and thorough debate; instead, we can build radically inclusive argument frameworks, thereby creating the most complex and comprehensive public discourse on persisting human rights and resource issues possible. This open and inclusive process is not meant to identify winning platforms, but to produce superior legislative outcomes which respond to the needs of all perspectives expressed.
The Society Library is our 501(c)3 non-profit, educational parent organization. It is the closed, inter-coding, twin system which is to be compared to the conclusions of the public Internet Government system in order to discover inherent bias or possible collusion of the private and public groups despite the systems' structural defenses and redundancies. The Society Library publishes the collaborative content for educational purposes in a visually-navigable, contextual library which reimagines the presentation of information via search engines (the Internet Government manages input, the Society Library inter-codes, then delivers output). The Internet Government and Society Library manage ideological conflicts regarding the definition, distribution, and defense of persisting and pressing human rights and resource conflicts for educational and awareness purposes.
Remove political partisanship from the conversation
Ideas represented in this system are not identified by party affiliation unless an argument specifically relies on addressing one. Within this system, political parties are effectively abolished; respective ideas are represented as is.
enable more Effective socio-political Discourse
Conflicting perspectives may be more easily distilled to their core logical or value-driven conflicts, therefore a greater focus may be applied to developing innovative solutions which respond to those conflicts.
Create an alternative platform for representation
In such a system, people can represent themselves directly by uploading their ideas into the system. People can replace federal legislative politicians as public servants by volunteering to help process data. This is closer to true self-governance.
Centralizes educational resources to identify research opportunities
In taking stock of knowledge contributing to argument frameworks, the system can serve to direct where further research or peer-review is needed on pertinent topics.
Create a corruption-resilient public-policy producing engine
Every decision "made" in the system (by meeting mathematical thresholds) is transparently displayed for public scrutiny. This is the equivalent to being able to witness every thought and conversation of a representative in government.
TEMPER EXTREME POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION
Generationally inherited knowledge could become increasingly less asymmetrically influenced by sociological variables and/or thought-bubble online behaviors if a centralized source is created and widely accessible.
Enable the most informed decisions possible
There are limits to how much information humans (one on one or in groups) can intellectually process, ideate, and communicate. In a collaborative, inter-coded digital system, we can greatly expand those limits and make more informed decisions.
Create useful tools for society as a whole
This system could enable a given society to better examine, understand, and communicate with itself for the purpose of more sincere self-governance, with the intention of enabling better decisions (made more quickly) by recognizing patterns of thought.
Want to be an Honorary Founder of the Internet Government?
BE AMONG THE FIRST 10,000 TO DONATE $100.00 TO THE CAUSE VIA OUR PARENT 501(C)3 NON-PROFIT (THE {Benjamin Franklin} SOCIETY LIBRARY) TO BE ARCHIVED AS ONE OF THE HONORARY FOUNDING Funding FIGURES OF THE INTERNET GOVERNMENT.
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