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.
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.
