Indyvoters of the world unite
it's unbelievable i hadn't come across indyvoter.org
before. if you think that social software is nothing but a market
conspiracy to turbocharge google's IPO or sell more software we
probably don't need, think again. the league of independent voters
alters the political game; it empowers people to join the protest,
effectively turning normal folks into tactical media activists; it
allows people everywhere to re-write the rules of participation and civic engagement by
enabling easy group formation. in short, it seeks to provide
deanspace-like spaces to the electorate, and to bundle the passion of
deanspace-like spaces with useful technologies like FOAF. needless to
say that everything is open source.
from the indyvoter website:
Indyvoter.org aims to revolutionize democracy by removing the barriers to political involvement
through the use of social networks.
Individuals use simple internet tools to connect with others of like values, promote issues
important to them, and ultimately increase their stake in social change and political progress.
Progressive communities benefit from soliciting their individual members equal say on matters of
agenda, decision making, and resource use.
Dynamic, powerful movements can be built using next generation open-source activist tools that
cover fundraising, map visualization, resource allocation, online decision making and campaign
specific tools that bridge the digital divide. link
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from the indyvoter requirements document:
What is indyvoter.org?
An incubator for the next thousand moveon.org's.
An issues-based non-hierarchical friend-of-a-friend activist resource network.
Friend-of-a-friend networks like Friendster and Tribe.net are viral community networks that
increase points of contact via "degrees of separation".
Issues-based activist networks increase longevity of a movement's momentum- avoiding
the post-electoral pullout of campaign-based organizational networks like DeanSpace.
Non-hierarchical resource networks allow all individuals involved to set their own agendas
and personally assess and utilize pooled community resources without the need for a central committee.
Indyvoter.org aims to reawaken democracy by encouraging every member of this viral network to organize around
the issues and campaigns that matter most to them while distributing the power and resources normally
organized by political parties and PACs across a self-organizing non-partisan online network.
Users can form dynamic voter blocs, be exposed to issues their friends care about, figure out how
they can help each others' causes, and learn about tactics for social change that work.
Indyvoter.org will provide dynamic activist communities with easy to use tools- stuff like map visualization
of government and other data, resource pooling tools, online decision making tools, and access to regional voter
files. link
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way to go people. get involved now! sign up!
don't forget to check the project's resources:
(thanks to Jo Walsh for the link via email)
1:27:18 PM 
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22 January 2004
