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Does anyone know of any software products that use this model at their core?


I believe agora voting platform does this: https://agoravoting.com/

They're focusing on getting the cryptographic underpinnings going correctly, whixh is awesome. They are also extremely interested in decentralizing the system via blockchain tech, which is a really good sign.

I try to follow their mailing lists, but unfortunately much of it is still in Spanish.



It's so funny, I just saw some TED talk on that yesterday.

I came across it because for the past couple of months I've been thinking and writing down some thoughts on building an application that applied "Delegative Democracy" towards the goal of allowing large groups of people to make important decisions. I didn't realize there was even a term for this concept until this blog post.


In addition to those mentioned already:

* http://liquidfeedback.org (used by Pirate Parties in several countries as well as the M5S movement in Italy)

* https://adhocracy.de

* https://www.loomio.org

A related US-based project is https://makeyourlaws.org



Will there be video of the event online? I won't be able to manage a trip but would hate to miss it.


We will be recording the software implementation presentations, but probably not the more informal workshops on the second day.


I contributed to a Rails app a few years ago through RMU that was trying to get Spain to use this model... https://github.com/PartidoDeInternet/AgoraOnRails and http://agoraonrails.com/


So much work has already been done on this and here I thought I was alone and breaking some new ground.

I have lots of reading material for tonight it seems.




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