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OBJECTIVES

BARRIERS

beta pathways

LEADERSHIP IS LISTENING

For this platform to achieve results requires that participants learn to take a stand of ownership and to declare what they are willing to produce  in unison through consensus. 

The principle barrier previous experience with political processes in which most people see themselves as listeners to broadcast communications, rather than as speakers. Even activists who criticize government do not speak as leaders and providers of solutions.

ACTIVISM – BREAKING NEW GROUND

Activists are a tiny minority in every community and they spend a lot of time enrolling people to their cause. In this situation, activists will find themselves surrounded by an interested crowd who are invited to look at the possibility of breaking new ground.

COMMUNITY INVENTION WORKSHOP

Onboarding begins with a hybrid (online and physical) community meeting in which professional facilitators pair with known community leaders for the purpose of transferring knowledge of the technology, and insights of participants in conversations that will design the project and its expansion in the community.

USER COMMUNITIES

A project begins with a small cadre of community members, as few as 4 or 5 enroll 100 people in hybrid community invention workshop in which participants design their community platform using a pro forma platform. This meeting is facilitated by a multidisciplinary panel of experts. Consensus building features will set initial goals. The real-world experiences and insights of participants will describe the challenges of the community as participants work with the user interface to created solutions.

HYBRID COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

The hybrid workshop will be conducted by a facilitator trained by either the Vanto Group or Think Virtues (or both depending on size and demographics of the community) to begin the onboarding process.  Participants will use the platform, create  rules of participation, declare the design agenda, assess the status quo and begin to define a vision of their community with data about jurisdiction, current leadership, and culture.

General Purposes of the Onboarding Workshop

The focus of the workshop is to create a background of relationship for all participants and for them to learn to use platform to expand this relatedness to include the entire community. Since predictable responses include the effects of intergroup bias, the design of the platform and workshop are invitational and attractive. During the workshop, after introducing participants to each other and  to the technology, and creating a rules of discourse, there may be conversation with elected officials, and others who are responsible to and for the community and participants may create actual proposals; such as: 

Government methods for consulting those whom are served

 Resilience developed through grassroots initiative.

Inclusion in plans for development in the community.

Increasing input from voters vs government employees.

Transparency: actively informing constituents before actions.

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community workshop agenda

Purpose: Community members create their community’s profile and practice using consensus technology. OYG onboarding staff records online training media for use bringing in new community members.

A workshop may be conducted over several days during which participants download the app and practice polling their community to identify consensus on the priorities, what people would like to change, prevent or achieve. As participants engage in group activities, they may create real projects and enroll others in enabling their goals

Sample Workshop Agenda:

    • Intro and ground rules.
    • Who are we as a community?
    • What works, what doesn’t work and what/who are the enablers in each case.
    • Community consensus re quality of life, safety & culture
    • Setting the agenda of the community in local, regional and national politics
    • Consensus-generated leadership
    • Re-imagining the voice of the community–updating a community profile
    • Polling projects and using the community’s AI assistant
    • Implementing outcomes

Participants get into relationship by sharing who they are and discussing myths about the community. They discuss changes they’ve witnessed in recent times, and imagine directions and outcomes they prefer and might commit to produce. After creating a list of objectives, they will break out into groups based on personal interest and objectives. People who are partners in life will be asked to choose separate groups.

Community objectives and action plans produced during the workshop may be circulated in local media and to the community community at large for discussion and ratification.  These objectives and plans may be modified by polling the community. Poll thresholds will be set for the app to trigger political or other action.

The Community Profile is unique to an OYG community platform. The community profile is displayed on the landing screen when opening the app on a smartphone. There is information that is salient to all community members. In the beta project,  OYG will seed some values; such as. the aggregate wealth and purchasing power of the community  sourced from public records. 3rd party APIs are used to automatically update some values along with weather forecasts, trending surveys, emergencies, entertainment, political action and enterprises.

Polling projects help workshop participants expand participation as they demonstrate with real practical examples, how a community sets the agenda of government. The ability for any member of the community to post a poll and propose action is one of the key features of OYG. Poll results are verifiable and immutable. Polls inform the community about itself and are a community’s political power. All verified community members are eligible to vote in polls. Voting is anonymized. Poll results may also inform the wider world about the consensus of the community on any issue. AI Natural language processing is employed to inform the world about a wider consensus on issues, when this occurs.

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