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Lisa Girlinghouse
Lisa Girlinghouse

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Building An Open Source Govenment

I was thinking how could us as a hold build a better goverment that everyone would benefit so this water reserve idea would get slammed down. This is what i came up with....
Start with the core principle --Open Source...Transparency + Forkability ....An open source government world means
All rules are visible
All decisions are logged
Anyone can propose improvements
Anyone can fork the system if it becomes corrupted.
No single enity owns the infrastructure .
Build the Foundation like a Linux Distribution
A Kernel--your core rules
APackage Manager --How people propose changes
Repositories--Where laws,protocols and decsions live
Maintainers--Elect or Rotating stewards.
Forking Rights--Protecting againts corruption.
The actual architecture

make the Constitution a public Git Repository
every rule is on file every change is a pull request every vote is a commit every citizen can audit the history.
governance is going to be a distribution Version Control System. instead of one Central Authority .
communities maintain their own branches.
regions Birds changes Upstream.
Global rules only exist when necessary.
identity-- public keys not paper
Citizenship becomes a cryptographic identity not a government issued ID
not a controlled resource. This prevents gatekeeping
Decision making --Consensus Algorithms
no voting for people voting for changes. we will use systems like proof of participation quadratic voting
delegated consensus and rotating stewardship .
replace government services with open protocols.
instead of agencies we have education protocols
Health protocols resource protocols infrastructure protocols and safety protocols..
this is how we don't have centralized control
build a resource flow system using 369
3
3 inputs citizen proposal
6 Procesding consensus and review
9 Output Implement change
we don't replace government
we out compete them with a system that is faster
more transparent more doctor more participation and impossible to corrupt. so tell me what y'all think about this if you think that this was a good idea or Comment what you think..m

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