Thi is a living community cataloguing hundreds of innovative practices, ideas, experiments, organizations, people, and other resources useful for building wiser democracies that work for all. "Wiser democracies" are systems of politics and governance, of citizenship and activism, which creatively engage more of our human capacities — not only to better address today's pressing social and environmental problems, but to help us build more desirable futures for ourselves and all the generations after us.
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1 2 3 ... 20 next » (58)Chaordic Commons ()Founded by Visa co-founder Dee Hock, who combined elements of uncontrolled creative chaos and orderly common purposes and principles to help communities and organizations self-organize.
Direct Democracy ()Citizens can make decisions, laws and policies directly in town hall meetings. Can they do it in whole states and countries? For an international academic site focused on direct democracy see C2D - Centre for Research on Direct Democracy.
Conscious democracy ()(also known as Reflective Democracy)
A society can be more wide awake and intelligent -- not only individually, but collectively. Things can be set up to empower informed citizens to make self-determined choices together. By creatively including all viewpoints and learning from errors a conscious democracy can confidently respond to (and anticipate) changing conditions.
http://www.co-intelligence.org/draftPlatform.html
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Tom: "food for thought re DI as a potential tribe"
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html