Today we begin platform availability for democratic decision making across New Zealand. We aren’t coming with a magic solution. There’s no immediate solution to New Zealand’s governance issues, because the only long term solution to those issues, is to give people the power instead of just a few. That will not happen quickly. This is the first public step.
The platform is being made available initially to build referendums for the country and hubs. “Hubs” are versions of the platform that can be run locally, by locals in any area of the country and help facilitate decision making everywhere from streets to towns and cities up to regions. They can also run organisations privately or publicly. It’s not being pushed to the public yet, it starts life with community groups stepping forward.
We are bringing tools that could enable a proper democratic process for people to decide what they want in a given community, organisation, region or area, with or without council involvement. Whether that democratic actually happens or not is up to us kiwis collectively, not any one individual or group.
If you are interested in either helping build nationwide referendums or local/regional hubs please message us at co*******@**nz.org
Direct Democracy comes from a belief that we are better off both individually and collectively by using direct decision making to decide on things collectively rather than relying on centralised politicians controlling us and making decisions for us.
Direct Democracy is work. It’s harder than centralised control. We all have to contribute. The end goal is we run our communities democratically not hierarchally with leaders deciding everything.
None of it will be any good if we don’t have people prepared to work on this for their area to get people involved in the decisions. Direct Democracy needs real people in real communities to contribute across the country.
There’s no agendas on this system. It’s not an activism tool. It’s not a political tool at all. We aren’t trying to appeal to politicians. We are trying to firstly make them transparent and accountable and then remove them. The process for voting does encourage and require critical thinking.
It’s a listening tool. We are not pressuring anyone to think any given way. People thinking the opposite way to you will be absolutely fine.
We do not want One Source Of Truth for staged voting, so people will be presented with multiple points of view in their decision making, each substantiated from different points of view.
This is not going to be released to the public for voting until we have enough interested community groups using the platform so please contact us co*******@**nz.org
We can begin the process of building local and regional referendas this coming week IF we have people prepared to work for that.
If we don’t, nothing will happen.
