Māori rise up while Government looks to rewrite history
Opinion: The Māori King Tūheitia was winding up the day’s hui with a predictable list of talking points that was struggling to hold anyone’s …
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Standing Upright in the Wild South | The Daily Blog
So let’s dump the death trap of chauvinism of all kinds, national, gender and race, and unite with our brothers and sisters of the Wild South to …
Bruce Pardy: WHO health treaty a convenient cover for more government overreach
The World Health Organization (WHO) is drafting a new pandemic agreement and amendments to the International Health Regulations, which since 2005 …
How AI is changing what sovereignty means
Disinformation, misleading information, and even hate speech, are the order of the day and the big question now is how to prevent these evils in …
Is OpenAI’s ‘moonshot’ to integrate democracy into AI tech more than PR? | The AI Beat
It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspiring leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn More Last week, an OpenAI PR rep reached out by email to let me know the company had formed a new “Collective Alignment” team that would …
Does democracy lead to better health?
In his book Development as Freedom Amartya Sen says that in functioning multiparty democracies “rulers have the incentive to listen to what people …
Launch of political party
Today we launched a non political, leaderless, political party with only one policy. It can’t really get any simpler in terms of concept. “ASK THE PEOPLE” Every political party throughout the world has leaders just dying to control and tell us how it will be, ultimately serving their own agendas and egos and not the…
The impact of Direct Democracy on a country
Direct Democracy is primarily about sovereignty- Sovereignty for the people to decide and sovereignty for the nation to decide together, as the sum of all it’s residents.
Politics versus democracy
New Zealand has never known real democracy, its the same for almost every nation.
Because New Zealand is a “representative democracy” we’ve almost never voted on issues of substance, just on people to to represent us to solve those issues. And as we know, they can’t represent us and they don’t.
Fundamental political governance problem
We think that a key fundamental problem with parliament and almost every politically empowered organisation lies in separating decision making from influence. Both concepts are necessary but it’s essential the processes are separated. Influence is everything up for discussion: it involves literally all of the ideas, the revelation of concepts and revelation of information. It…