weworktogether

Describe your idea:

Introduce volunteer citizen participation directly into the daily operation of elected politicians, on both national and local levels. Start with local councilors and: A) TASK TRACKER = simplified version of Request Tracker, or Basecamp, to track tasks that citizens ask councilors to work on; B) OPEN COMMITTEES – tool to have discussions on tasks/decisions and related documents that councilors discuss in various committees, with citizen ability to collectively comment on and edit documents as well. Couple of my local concilors are willing to use this and i’ll work with them anyhow.
http://weworktogether.wikidot.com/

What problem does it solve?:

Problem of political representation, which is a broken way to conduct politics democratically. Since it doesn’t enable citizens to participate in it. This proposal would open the doors for the Internet Model, by introducing the concept of Open Process. Given the tools and open processes for communication and cooperation we have available today, our current political models are a problem in itself. They have been designed centuries ago and are quite inappropriate today. We can do far better, and direct volunteer participation through open processes seems a logical way to proceed. Open Process in academia proposal: http://hackthestate.org/open-process-academic-publishing/

Type of idea: A brand new project