Democracy Earth exists to enable incorruptible decision making.
Democracy is, at its core, decision making. What Democracy Earth is about incorruptible decision making in governance. We envision a borderless world of global citizens with full personal sovereignty, participating in the decisions and debates that affect their personal, working and civic lives.
Humans are social creatures; if Descarte was right ("I think, therefore I am") and thinking is the fundamental building block of being, then surely organizing is the fundamental building block of being with others. "We organize, therefore we decide." At Democracy Earth we create digital decision-making tools for organizations to make decisions that give a voice to all participants.
.At Democracy Earth we are not just pushing direct democracy. We’re not even pushing liquid democracy; liquid democracy is just a tool that just supports today’s illiquid, frozen democracy. We’re political structure agnostics.
The DEF is a worker owned and operated collective of developers, hacktivists and social entrepreneurs pioneering a new style of political engagment with planetary impact. DEF is creating tools that give everyone the experience of being a digital nomad in a borderless world, embracing the entire earth as their home.
The DEF white paper - introducing the VOTE token to the world - resides on GitHub where more than 19 contributors from 15 countries collaborated to bring the vision of a Social Smart Contract into sharp focus. By desire and design, the Sovereign governance platform will truly be decision-making software of the people, by the people, for the people.
The DEF secret sauce - a focus on an intuitive user experience - is core to everything we do: it should be easy to participate in the decsions that affect your life.
Everyone has a voice, and every voice should matter. Democracy Earth tools such as liquid democracy that can increase not only participation in decision-making, but also the shared understanding of the issues. The ability to dynamically delegate one's vote is a powerful tool for political accountability.
Trust is the building block of every single institution in the world. Democracy Earth aims to bring trust back to democracy. We are excited to live in an era of technology tools like the bitcoin blockchain enabling us to fight democracy's biggest adversary - corruption - coding new kinds of organizations with software, and even redefining the very nature of law.
Democracy Earth will maintain an active commitment to transparency and community engagement. From interacting on open source platforms like Github and Slack, to publishing content on channels like Medium and SoundCloud, to social sharing on Twitter and Facebook, DEF is dedicated to creating and maintaining multiple lines of communication to users and contributors.
Our purpose, vision and values are enshrined in our company constitution.