Own Your Government, LLC

Solving Global Problems

People are watching decisions being made
that put their future at risk

and they have no way to influence what happens next

Not because they don’t care
Not because they don’t understand

Because there is no way for people
even when they agree
to act together in time

That’s the problem

Decisions are made in isolation

Consequences are not

How do we shape what happens next?

No single system coordinates everyone

 

WE HAVE NO WAY TO ACT TOGETHER

We have no way to act together

Problems drag on

We sign petitions
We show up

Nothing moves

Social media shows we feel about things

But it doesn’t show consensus

UNORGANIZED–WE ARE THE PROBLEM

 ORGANIZED: WE ARE THE SOLUTION

WE ORGANIZE NATURALLY

IN COMMUNITIES

Where we live and work together

We define mutual interest
Build consensus
For collective action

 COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS

-HOW C.A.N. WORKS-

1. People show up 
On a community platform

2. Share
Problems, ideas, concerns.

3. See
What people agree on-
and what they don’t

4. Discuss & Propose
Solutions

5. Vote
Consensus enables a collective voice

Example: Climate Adaptation

There’s flooding in a neighborhood.

Normally:

people post videos

wait for official response

confusion, fear and frustration

 WITH A COORDINATED ACTION NETWORK PLATFORM

Moments of crisis become moments of alignment

C.A.N. IS ALSO ABOUT PREVENTING CRISES

Example: Climate Transition

A city needs affordable housing

 

Normally

Developers lobby politicians for opportunities

People organize to protest unwanted density

Climate impacts are secondary

Protests cause delays and compromise

 

With Coordinated Action Platforms

residents adopt energy-saving options
based on shared priorities

fewer protests–faster adoption

lower costs through cooperation

communities adapt sustainable innovations

FOR THRIVING LOCAL ECONOMIES

COORDINATED ACTION NETWORKS

Show what people actually agree on—right now.

And turn it into action

COMMUNITY-OWNED

An OYG supported community is a self-identifying geographic part of a city, region, state or nation. Residents log into a community's OYG platform with a smart phone or browser. Neighborhood OYG affiliates may provide cost-free smartphones or tablets.

Security


A community's OYG platform exists as encrypted data in redundant servers, with strong privacy protection of personal information, voting data and outcome of polls, using security procedures equal to financial institutions.

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VERIFIED CONSENSUS

Every registered member on a community platform may post a poll to the community. When responses to the poll reach a statistically relevant threshhold, consensus is reported to media, and government officials.

COMMUNITY FORUM & Profile

Community profile shows current status on goals and daily progress

Machine learning notes reveal the quality of interactions and sets tone

Displays show verified consensus about member-sourced topics and polls

Displays a set of human and other community resources, a weather report

Focus On action

VERIFIED POLL RESULTS SET THE AGENDA OF GOVERNMENT

POLLS THAT MOVE politicians

Complaints lead to action

Poll reports to media and government

Members can initiate or vote in polls without fear of reprisal

Documents, links, video and images may be submitted in discussions

REALIZING COMMON GROUND

BUILDING TRUST THROUGH COMMUNICATION

RELATIONSHIP BUILDING

Instant A/V connection of member to members regardless of where they are.

A/V recording, sharing and optionally uploaded per the member's preference.

AI-driven transcription & analytic tools used to leaven a tone of moderation.

A community can use the economic and political weight of consensus

OYG DATA

Backend technologies

Privacy and Blockchain

We use Blockchain to protect identities and ensure the integrity of poll results, digitally-signed documents, chat history and video recordings from theft, corruption, ransomware, and loss. Historical data and legal documents are protected with bank-level encryption and a tamper-proof checksum hash.

NLP

We use NLP to parse poll questions and apply semantic similarity to find similar issues being polled in other communities to derive broader consensus on import issues. We use AI on chat posts and comments to detect offensive or vulgar language, and attributes such as tension, anger, ad hominem speech, as well as non-factual assertions.

Decentralized Architecture

Each community runs on its own server node or “instance” with inter-regional data redundancy. This allows our platform to redeploy the instance quickly and automatically in another data center, if the original node goes down due to network latency, regional downtime, data corruption or a network attack.

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if people could act
on what they agree on?

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