Democracy 3.0

Required reading: We need five online networks to solve the worlds problems by 2012 or we decline into conflict for generations ; Online political networks (blog category) ; The rise of online political networks – individual contribution and mass participation ; Project: E-democracy page ; The transition to online networks may take six months or 50 years ;The next four stages of online networks – from tools and solutions to new structures and economic development ; The potential of collective innovation and open source to reshape our world needs to be demonstrated ; People aren’t apathetic, they just don’t have an online network to channel their interests ; Facebook of global government needed – delivery in 12 weeks! ; E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network

Web 3.0 opportunity

The EDemocracy online political network (EDemocracy) is a Web 3.0 online political network (or facebook) which aims to enhance democracy by providing a costless and immediate means to distribute information, facilitate collaboration, exchange content, manage workflow, deliver transparency and allow political sovereignty to be exercised directly by citizens. The content includes profiles, processes and outcomes. Profiles are self-published by each politicians, citizens, government executives and institutions. Process content includes issues (military, economic, social, environmental, etc), Priorities, policies (proposed, pending, current, redundant), Projects (government expenditure, volunteers, partners needed. Outcome content includes announcements, videos, audio, reports (feasibility, economic, financial, environmental, industry, market) blogs, pictures and articles. All content is linked and rated for quality and quantity.

The EDemocracy online political networks applies Web 3.0 online network principles. This includes semantic search, peer to peer networks, communities of common interest focused on a common purpose, comprehensive user generated content, workflow management, scalable open source web applications and cloud computing power from Amazon.

Improves the way news and information are shared within the community
The network provides direct and immediate communication between politicians, government executives, citizens and other organisations. There is no restriction on the amount or type of information that can be delivered between democratic participants. It provides a single information source for local, state, federal and international democratic processes.

Politicians self-publish their profile, process and outcome content at a single location for review by the community. Citizens participate in democracy by reviewing issues, rating content, setting priorities, sharing their knowledge and experience, contributing opinions, linking and volunteering. Government executives can keep citizens informed about the political process directly.

This is new and different from what already exists
The traditional model of democracy determines outcomes based on ideology – left or right. The eDemocracy model allows all participants to see through the community to determine outcomes based on issues.

Information is currently distributed via expensive privately owned channels – television, print, magazines. Communications is limited to a few, short one sided broadcasts. A Web 3.0 network allows people to see through the community and facilitate collective learning, exchange an decisions concerning comprehensive global political information in hours, rather short messages about local politics over a few months. Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, said recently the world needs a “Facebook” of global economic government: a fluid, interconnected network of international institutions with a flexible steering group of leading countries. With critical mass, transparency occurs and sovereignty is exercised directly by citizens.

Prototype is available for review
The EDemocracy prototype is available for review. An EDemocracy platform could be delivered in 60 days.

EDemocracy 3.0 is part of Economic Development 4.0

Democracy 3.0 posts

• Management 3.0 in 2012? Will the technology-business relationship be inverted? Will technology define business?

  For decades, enterprise software has been designed to support business processes. These business processes were defined by the organisation. The organisation's management model was based on the Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchy. As we have described many times before, the world is in transition from Web 1.0 proprietary hierarchies to Web 3.0 open networks. The following article published today suggests that 2012 will be THE transition year. Extract: ICT 2012 outlook – The end of business as we know it!, The Rust Report, January 23, 2012 According to Andrew Milroy, Vice President ICT Research Frost & Sullivan in 2012, we will witness the end of business as we know it. The relationship between ... Read more

• Management 3.0 Digital Ecosystem: New presentation and collaboration group!

  I have just published a new presentation at :slideshare: titled "MANAGEMENT 3.0: An open source software update to digital, community ecosystems (from analogue, proprietary hierarchies) across organisation, industry, national and global endeavours". I have also establish the Management 3.0 group to provide an example of organisational sub-groups. Please register and join the Management 3.0 public group to discuss, contribute and collaborate. :slideshare_m3_large: This is part of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge.

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• Beyond Bureaucracy: Management 3.0 “Central Brain” platform enables integrated Digital Ecosystems spanning organisations, industry, nations and global endeavours

  My recent entry in the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge Part 2 of the McKinsey HBR M-Prize is called the The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. I have lodged a entry The Management 3.0 "Central Brain" platform enables integrated Digital Ecosystems spanning organisations, industry, national and global endeavours. Please read, comment and rate the entry here. This entry was created in December 2011. The current version of this document will be maintained at this page on my blog. Background: Part 1 of the M-Prize In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and ... Read more

• Could Google+ be the foundation for Economic Development 4.0?

  A member of my Google+ circles asked me the following question: Marcus, I was reading much of your website and your theory on Web 4.0. In the last week, I've said that once Google integrates all of it's entire App products (Business+Education),Gmail, Google Docs, etc into Google+, it will set the foundation for Web 4.0. I feel that G+ isn't going to be a social network, but will actually bring about another Web reformation (Web 4.0). When I came across your website today, it surprised me at how much your theory and your supporting graphic supported my belief. Do you also see that in Google Plus? I thought I would share my ... Read more

• UN call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival… How to make this happen?

  I stumbled across the following LinkedIn discussion. UN call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival... How to make this happen? Extract: Warning for global suicide and time running out, Ban ki-moon called last Friday at Davos for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival. What is needed to take a global interconnected perspective on the issues and threats our planet is facing and start action? How can this gain traction and produce the desired effect? “To make it happen we have to be prepared to make major changes – in our lifestyles, our economic models, our social organization, and our political life. We have ... Read more

• Australia 4.0: The NBN needs a National Application Network (Web 3.0 social, political and industrial “Central Brains”) to coordinate and achieve national innovation, collaboration, productivity and outcomes

  NOTE: I posted this article in the LinkedIn NBN Group. I have added it here as a post. If you could create a “Central Brain” (or Facebook) in 5 days to focus the effort and wisdom of 2 Billion people, what problem would you solve? What social, industrial or political endeavour would you transform? Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) will connect 20m people in a faster network. The NBN appears to rely on a "build it and they (ie benefits) will come" approach. Australia needs a complementary and proactive National Application Network (NAN) strategy to reconfigure what we do and how we do it for national benefit. We should reconfigure our community ... Read more

• Every country and innovation ecosystem needs a “Central Brain” to coordinate innovation, collaboration, workflow and valuable outcomes

  I have been thinking about the problem Equity Market 3.0 is trying to solve.  One problem was identified by a recent Review of Australia's Innovation system concerning national innovation. I have extracted some of the report which outlines the problem. In considering any governance framework it is important to note that: The innovation agenda does and must touch on the whole range of government concerns and cuts across bureaucratic silos. This invites, and indeed requires, a ‘whole of government’ approach and framework. Specialised roles and functions within the innovation system need to be counterbalanced by the capability to take a helicopter view, and to address and resource cross-cutting, platform issues. To date it has been ... Read more

• Who spawns and cradles Economic Development 4.0? The Earth Institute is a good candidate and catalyst …

  Quick summary of :ed4: (The :ed4: presentation is embedded at the end of this post) :listbegin: :ed4: is how the world works after applying :w3: (or Facebook) networks to social, industrial and political endeavours :w3: person to person networks overcome the design limitations of :w1: hierarchies to deliver global transparency, meritocracy, productivity, accessibility and better decision making We can create the Web 3.0 networks on the :criticalpath: to :ed4: in 90 days. We will need the world's entrepreneurs, philanthropists and statesmen to engineer and inspire their use One global :w4: network can replace local :w1: hierarchies. Examples include :edemocracy:, fueling the growth of SME’s with :em3:, :c3:, :united: and :hi3:. Other potential :w4: networks include ... Read more

• Open Letter to Bjorn Lomborg: Web 3.0 networks overcome Web 1.0 limitations to prioritise and implement global solutions

  Your :ted: presentation on prioritising the solutions to global priorities was insightful. Innovation is incremental and I wanted to offer :w3: networks as a structure that overcomes the design limitations of :w1: to deliver a more effective means to prioritise and implement solutions to the many problems confronting our world. :w3: networks are a disruptive design that overcome the limitations of Web 1.0 The Web 3.0 network “Design” applies Web 3.0 principles to all social, industrial and political endeavours to create Web 3.0 networks or structures using a cloud-based open source content management system to tag and link the people and content within a community of common interest to facilitate information distribution, ... Read more

• My 2nd HBR-McKinsey M-Prize Application for Economic Development 4.0

  This is my second application in the M-Prize competition. The first was for :em3:. My :ed4: M-Prize application can be reviewed here. The M-Prize In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Do you have an instructive case study (a Story) or an experimental design (a Hack) that demonstrates how Web 2.0 values (including transparency, collaboration, ... Read more

• Open letter to Google.org and its volunteers: Please help engineer global SME growth (equitymarket.org), climate stability, health and Economic Development 4.0!

  I read with interest about the objective of Google.org below: Google.org projects are created for the purpose of addressing a social challenge and serving the public good. Our goal is to find engineering solutions to global challenges such as climate change, clean energy and global health. We focus on activities that take full advantage of Google’s engineering teams, global infrastructure and user-driven approach, while drawing on Google’s ability to innovate and scale. The purpose of this letter is to introduce three opportunities to engineer a :w3: networks that provide solutions to specific global challenges. The :w3: networks that may interest :googleorg: or its volunteers are: :listbegin: :united: is :w3: community to engineer global ... Read more

• Open Letter to George Soros: Web 3.0 thinking about democracy, economic development and financial markets (equitymarket.gs)

  Mr George Soros Chairman, Open Society Institute I read with interest about your initiative to inspire a new way of thinking about economics. I studied Economics at University and maintain an avid interests in geostrategy. I appreciate the need for new ways of thinking and behaviours to deliver a more stable approach to economic management and financial markets. The purpose of this letter is to introduce three :w3: networks that encourage different modes of thinking and behaviour in democracy, financial markets and economic development: :listbegin: :edemocracy: (nationally) and :united: (internationally) to provide a new, community driven approach to democracy and global governance. This approach may be consistent with the objectives of the Open Society Foundations. :ed4:: ... Read more

• We can trust the “Wisdom of Crowds” to run the world!

  I am reading the book "Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki". :em3: and :ed4: aim to create global :w3: networks that aggregate communities of common interest to focus effort and make collective decisions using the :wisdomofcrowds:. The :wisdomofcrowds: aggregated through :w3: networks are likely to make wiser collective decisions than those currently made by single members of the group. :w3: networks facilitate the four conditions necessary to facilitate wise collective decision making - diversity of opinion, independence, decentralisation and aggregation. In summary, we can rely on the :wisdomofcrowds: to run the world using :w3: networks on the :criticalpath: to :ed4:. I have extracted some paragraphs for your convenience, but encourage ... Read more

• Open letter to Richard Branson: Revolutionising investment banking (equitymarket.vg), revolutionising financial markets (financialmarket.co.uk) and Economic Development

  Sir Richard Branson I read with interest about your initiative to Change the face of banking. There is also an enormous opportunity in re-casting the equity market, or investment banking industry, by applying social networking concepts to recast service delivery through the internet. An online industry network for the equity market can bring together companies, advisors and investors in an online space where they can collaborate and distribute information to facilitate the growth of small and medium enterprises. This is called :em3:. The purpose of this letter is to introduce the opportunity for Virgin of applying Equity Market 3.0 to fuel the growth of SME's and the :bvi: financial centre. The venture ... Read more
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  Application to TED: A Twitter now and a speaking slot in 2012?

  Dear Chris TED is an inspiration. The journey of an entrepreneur is lonely and TED has provided inspiration, energy and a feeling that I was not alone. I have derived much from the TED community and I would like to share four ideas with the TED community - :em3:, :ed4:, the :criticalpath: and :united: (to deliver "Ideas worth creating"). The purpose of this email is to ask you: to consider broadcasting these ideas on your Twitter account (now) in 2011 to consider this application to speak at TED in 2012 to share the outcome of my efforts to crowdcreate :em3: in 20+ financial centres and inspire :ed4: by June 2012 Crowdcreating Equity Market 3.0 in ... Read more
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  Open letter to the Ruler of Dubai: Web 3.0 networks to accelerate financial market growth (EquityMarket.ae) and economic development

  Your Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and President of the Dubai International Financial Centre Dubai International Financial Centre The Gate, Level 14 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Your Highness I apologise for writing an :openletter: and I understand this is unconventional. The Open Letter approach simply allows me to find the right people and qualify interest faster in opaque hierarchies around the world. Any further communication would, unless agreed otherwise, be private. I have visited Dubai on numerous occasions and can feel the excitement of its ambitions. I have watched your decisive investments to consolidate the stock exchanges that service the global equity market. ... Read more

• My HBR-McKinsey M-Prize Application for Equity Market 3.0

  The M-Prize In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable. Do you have an instructive case study (a Story) or an experimental design (a Hack) that demonstrates how Web 2.0 values (including transparency, collaboration, meritocracy, openness, community and self-determination) can be unleashed to overcome the design limits of Management 1.0—and help to create Management 2.0? My application for ... Read more
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  I.O.U.S.A is a Web 2.0 online political network promoting Web 3.0 government

  I.O.U.S.A. is a Web 2.0 online political network created by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation asking citizens to "encourage" the US government to move beyond Web 1.0 government opportunism and implement a Web 3.0 government that pursues sustainable, solvent and fully funded policies. Toward this end they have released the I.O.U.S.A. movie and Citizens guide which explains the US Federal deficit. I recommend you see the movie and review the Citizens guide. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is "dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of several key challenges threatening America's future, and to accelerating action on them". I.O.U.S.A movie Wake up, America! We're on the brink of a ... Read more
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  The start of Web 3.0 Edemocracy in Australia?

  I was in Canberra today to participated in the strategic review of a mobile payments company.A friend provided an introduction to Dr Jonathan Gray, Senior Researcher, e-Government Initiative at NICTA. I was able to meet Jonathon straight away. I demonstrated the EDemocracy prototype and provide a link to further information at the Web 3.0 Edemocracy network or a Web 3.0 Climate Stability network. I will need all the help I can get. I am hoping a Web 3.0 transparent approach will allow people interested in my projects and opportunities to find me. We can then assemble a community to create the Web 3.0 online networks on the path to Web ... Read more
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  Let’s transform the world in 365 days

  Mandatory reading!: Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 explained Recommended reading: Web 3.0 online network concepts ; We need five online networks to solve the worlds problems by 2012 or we decline into conflict for generations ; The transition to online networks may take six months or 50 years ;The next four stages of online networks - from tools and solutions to new structures and economic development ; Facebook of global government needed - delivery in 12 weeks! ; E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network We need to build the Web 3.0 online social, industry and political networks on ... Read more

• Regulated capitalism: replace? more regulation? Web 3.0 tweaks?

  Required reading: Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 explained ; Projects ; Opportunities I just finished writing a comment on the This is not the end of capitalism, Mark Shuttleworth, 4th November 2008. The article triggered a thought process that resulted in a long comment. I have reproduced the comment here and added some further thoughts. Regulated capitalism is the last man standing. We have no choice but to make it work. We must, however, acknowledge that regulated capitalism has failed its citizens comprehensively. The failure of regulated capitalism is equal to the collapse of central planning. The communists recognised their system had failed and chose to implement something ... Read more

• Knight Foundation’s Newschallenge.org – my five grant applications

  I just lodged five grant applications to the Knight Foundation's News Challenge. My applications can be reviewed  here. An overview of the Knight Foundation is provided below. A summary of my application are available below. Knight Foundation summary Extract The News Challenge is an initiative of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. The 2009 Knight News Challenge is year three of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations, and information distribution and visualization. Knight Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news and ... Read more
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  Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 explained

  This original post will be revised continuously to reflect new information and ideas. The continuously revised version will be maintained at Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 explained. Pre-requisite reading: Web 3.0 online network concepts | What are online networks? What is the market opportunity? "Economic development is the development of economic wealth of countries or regions for the well-being of their inhabitants." The next stage of economic development will be driven by online social, industry and political networks based on person to person online networks that connect a global communities. Web 1.0 delivered the internet and connected large numbers of people. Web 2.0 demonstrated the technology to assemble ... Read more

• Facebook of global government needed – delivery in 12 weeks!

  Pre-requisite reading: E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network I just read a Financial Times article which states that my E-Democracy prototype has an immediate application. IMF needs to make some 'Facebook' friends, By Alan Beatie, Financial Times, 17th October 2008 Extract: Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, said recently the world needs a "Facebook" of global economic government: a fluid, interconnected network of international institutions with a flexible steering group of leading countries.Several heads of government, including Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, and Angela Merkel, German chancellor, have endorsed Mr Brown's call for a fundamental review of global economic government in the light of ... Read more

• Make poverty history with Web 3.0 online social networks

  Pre-requisite reading: The key elements of a Web 3.0 online network ; "Online network solution" open source software project ; Transform the world in 365 days ; E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network ; Make poverty history "The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that 189 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include halving extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development." - Wikipedia I also recommend the "In my name" video at Youtube. Poverty is ... Read more

• Beyond terminal US insolvency – bailouts, debt defaults, collapse, receivership committee formed

  It has been a very interesting few weeks. The US system has collapsed. Failed financial firms are trying to convince the government to invest in them. The selling proposition? - "too big to let fail!" Understandably, the US congress are making further enquiries before writing a cheque for US$700 billion dollars. The US already terminally insolvent - even with unprecedented growth it can not repay its debts. Another US$700 billion won't push it over the edge. It already passed the edge. We have crossed a noticeable threshold - people and journalists are being more direct and forthright about their commentary of exactly what has occurred. The prospect of "opaque channels" ... Read more

• Scalr is an open source server farm management application for Amazon EC2 and is a fraction of the cost of Rightscale

  I have previously written about Amazon Web Services and Rightscale (see Category - Internet applications and hosting). Rightscale offers to manage a farm of servers to automatically scale the processing and storage capacity of a web application to service growing, or declining, demand from internet users. Rightscale costs USD500 per month plus a USD2,000 setup fee (last time I checked). Scalr is an open source application that performs the same function as Rightscale. You can implement Scalr yourself from here or use Scalr's USD50 per month paid version (with no setup fee). I have not tested or used Scalr yet. Scalr Google Code site - Extract Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling ... Read more
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  E-democracy just six weeks away! Political sovereignty exercised directly by citizens through an online political network

  Pre-requisite reading : We need five online networks to solve the worlds problems by 2012 or we decline into conflict for generations ; Online political networks (blog category) ; The rise of online political networks - individual contribution and mass participation ;  Project: E-democracy page ; The transition to online networks may take six months or 50 years ;The next four stages of online networks - from tools and solutions to new structures and economic development ; The potential of collective innovation and open source to reshape our world needs to be demonstrated ; People aren't apathetic, they just don't have an online network to channel their interests An ... Read more

• Online network building blocks: automatic scaling of web servers, persistent storage and MySQL management

  Pre-requisite reading: Build an ebusiness on your desktop and drag it onto Amazon’s elastic cloud ; Need a solution … it is in the clouds Rightscale and Amazon Web Services now offers essential features not previously available - automatic scaling , Manager for MySQL and Persistent Storage. The Amazon Web Services platform empowered the entrepreneur, but advanced technical skills were still required to solve storage and scalability issues to create a truly scalable application. These latest developments are critical building blocks of transformative online networks and bring the power direct to the entrepreneur. This power is available by using the Rightscale dashboard/service. They charge USD2,500 to setup your server and ... Read more

• The era of transformative online social networks begins

  The era of online networks which manage information of no value is ending. The era of online networks that manage valuable information and reshape industry is beginning. The foundation for online networks has been building for decades. The most recent milestone may have been 90% broadband penetration rates in the major economies. The next generation of online social, industry and political networks will deliver unprecedented transparency, liquidity and accessibility in all aspects of society. My inspiration for this article comes from the following article. Web 2.0 and free are kaput, Next - the smart, distributed, transparent Web, Chris Shipley Demo.com, July 14 2008 Extract: five ideas, arguably all parts of a greater ... Read more