I'd love to "put up a page right now" with ideas, etc. But, as of this point in time, most of those ideas are still in my head & not yet out on (electronic) paper. Due to some other committments that I have for my free time over the next couple months, the 1.1.2000 self-imposed deadline is probably the best I'm going to be able to do.
Concerning input, once Netocracy.org is up and running, you and everyone else will be welcome to comment, contribute, etc. Just so you know, what goes up on 1.1.2000 definitely WON'T be a finished product - but only a beginning. I intend the project to approximately be a voting system equivalent of Linux or Apache or..... In other words, I intend for it to be available under some sort of open source agreement - so anybody and everybody can poke holes in it, recommend improvements, and help develop a stable, secure, (hopefully) world-class voting system (or systems) which could be used in the real world. This also means that it'd be available for free to schools, universities, organizations, civic groups, etc that would like to setup their own, internal voting system (just like Linus & Apache are available free, today).
There's a lot of great insights, warnings, objections, etc which people have brought out in this discussion thread which will all be fodder for helping to improve whatever Netocracy.org can produce. Last night I printed out all 170+ comments which people had submitted to this thread (yah, I know - I killed a tree in the process - 69 pages of output all together - but I thought it'd be worth it). I'm still reading through them all making a list of all the great issues, concerns, etc that people brought up. I was going to post it as a response to my original post, but am not sure that I'll be done with it by the time this article gets archived off Slashdot's home page. We'll see.
I'm planning to bring a website up on 1.1.2000 called Netocracy.org. I intend for it to be a not-for-profit site for people to vote on issues which are of importance to them. Not just U.S. issues, but of any nation, state, province, town, organization, or group. It's intended as something that could, possibly, someday, have an effect on real life political systems. We'll have to wait and see if it works out that way.
I'm only just starting to lay the site out. Anyone interested in the project can contact me.
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Mawbid,
..... In other words, I intend for it to be available under some sort of open source agreement - so anybody and everybody can poke holes in it, recommend improvements, and help develop a stable, secure, (hopefully) world-class voting system (or systems) which could be used in the real world. This also means that it'd be available for free to schools, universities, organizations, civic groups, etc that would like to setup their own, internal voting system (just like Linus & Apache are available free, today).
I'd love to "put up a page right now" with ideas, etc. But, as of this point in time, most of those ideas are still in my head & not yet out on (electronic) paper. Due to some other committments that I have for my free time over the next couple months, the 1.1.2000 self-imposed deadline is probably the best I'm going to be able to do.
Concerning input, once Netocracy.org is up and running, you and everyone else will be welcome to comment, contribute, etc. Just so you know, what goes up on 1.1.2000 definitely WON'T be a finished product - but only a beginning. I intend the project to approximately be a voting system equivalent of Linux or Apache or
There's a lot of great insights, warnings, objections, etc which people have brought out in this discussion thread which will all be fodder for helping to improve whatever Netocracy.org can produce. Last night I printed out all 170+ comments which people had submitted to this thread (yah, I know - I killed a tree in the process - 69 pages of output all together - but I thought it'd be worth it). I'm still reading through them all making a list of all the great issues, concerns, etc that people brought up. I was going to post it as a response to my original post, but am not sure that I'll be done with it by the time this article gets archived off Slashdot's home page. We'll see.
- tgwysong -
tgw@email.com
I'm planning to bring a website up on 1.1.2000 called Netocracy.org. I intend for it to be a not-for-profit site for people to vote on issues which are of importance to them. Not just U.S. issues, but of any nation, state, province, town, organization, or group. It's intended as something that could, possibly, someday, have an effect on real life political systems. We'll have to wait and see if it works out that way.
I'm only just starting to lay the site out. Anyone interested in the project can contact me.
T.G.Wysong
tgw@email.com