BioneersYouth
Continue your Bioneers dialogue and excitement here!
This is a forum for youth Bioneers attendees to share our unique experiences from Bioneers 2007. Here we will stay connected to other youth leaders we met at the conference and keep the dialogue rolling! Read what others are talking about and get involved with others in your area.Remember that you have to "join" WiserEarth, which is free of course, if you w ...learn more
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Created: Oct 10, 2007
Updated: Sep 28, 2009
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Problem
As a practical matter, the world faces increasing divides between the Haves and Have-Nots, but also between an ever-increasing technological level, and society's social/moral level which is often dragged by pre-21st century institutions whose slowness reacting to Climate and other challenges, arguably endangers human survival.
For more information please see: Thresholdware.html on EconomicDemocracy.org
Action
Thresholdware is software which allows citizens to coordinate intentions and actions on a mass scale. It works by securely and privately storing individual commitments, and then putting the aggregate of those individual commitments into coordinated action when a specific critical mass or threshold has been reached. These can include financial transactions, such as fundraising commitments, or "action transactions'" such as strike votes, product boycotts, civil disobedience, provisionally joining a union, etc.
For more information please see: Thresholdware.html on EconomicDemocracy.org
Results
A: Democracy would benefit, as would any citizen in any country worldwide, and any community, with access to this open source free software. As outlined above and further detailed in the url, benefits from this disruptive technology people worldwide include more readily reaching consensus, raising funds for projects, and taking part in collectively agreed upon civic actions.
Thresholdware partially levels the playing field, making it easier for the decentralized, less wealthy, and bottom up, to have larger roles in a world still dominated by the centralized, the wealthy, and by top-down institutions/organizations. It would help everyone --including the latter groups and institutions-- by giving humanity a new tools for more rapid decentralized responses in a world wheren sudden, nonlinear disruptions occur more frequently, in which predicting/averting them, or responding quickly enough, is often not possible for traditional institutions if they go at it alone.
For more information please see: Thresholdware.html on EconomicDemocracy.org
