generate passion in solving local problems
Maybe what you need is something offline, to reach out to the people who aren’t a part of the on-line community. Maybe work with the local community center or get articles into the local paper that summarize the highlights of the online community.
make the news creation process transparent - and as such the platform should support edited news models coexisting with new ones.
people not presently receiving, for instance, Joe's newsletter on lost animals will get his alert about the rampaging elephant.
grow into a national network where people may sign up because they are passionate about an issue, and find they have local allies
to take on the critical challenge of bringing organizations that are just getting by with their current methods of communication and outreach to make the small changes needed to their practices in order for them to participate in a common on-line system.
This simple approach lays a foundation of support for building physical community and supporting journalism.
The community does not need an impossible time commitment of most users voting on most items to function democratically. If requests prove too numerous, a cosponsor or two could be required, but mostly w
And above all: we're going to be doing this anyway. Funding will greatly
Democracy needs many-to-many communication. Without it, our self-government lacks something critical: us. PWGD proposes a network in which people can 1) follow the info recommendations of peers of their choosing, 2) write articles and commentary and make recommendations themselves, and 3) request that an item of information go to everyone in the network, to be decided by a random jury of people in the network.
Democracy needs many-to-many communication. Without it, our self-government lacks something critical: us. PWGD proposes two new, complementary ways to make possible mass communication from everyone and to everyone.
First, involves people in choosing their own editorial filters and in acting as filters for others
Second, items can be petitioned for general distribution. The request will be quickly decided by a random jury of people in the network, so no people have more than their peers.
rotated so that everyone may serve and people do not have weight any more than their peers.
Media - mass communication - controlled by a few is not just anti-democratic, it is itself inimical to democracy. The problem to be solved, in our view, is how a
We see solved is how everyone can have a claim on everyone else's attention.
PWGD Community News will establish many-to-many communication on the local level
unique because while encouraging the maximum participation in contributing to, using, and distributing community information,
The idea of a central meeting
First, we're go out to content producers, from town government to area media to local blogger, or the 'to everyone' important notices.
People do not have to log into our system and provide content just for us.
why us:
We want to *use*
technology developed separately, modularly, dividable
PWGD is an all-volunteer organization and will continue to be so.
open source
Natick is a town of more than 32,000 people including original proponents of this proposal. Natick is also the center of population for Massachusetts.
Framingham has a population of more than 65,000, and is known for being the largest town in New England and for the multi-generational longitudinal Framingham Heart Study.
possible experience watching our decision-making technology in action: my god, they're making every mistake every government has made in history!