Governance and Citizenship in an Exponential Age.

A presentation at EO University in October 2018 in San Francisco, CA, USA by Pia Mancini

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Governance and Citizenship in an Exponential Age. @piamancini

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What are two aspects of our current democratic system that you like and two that you dislike?

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We are 21st century citizens living with 19th century institutions conceived with an information technology from the 15th century.

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Monopoly over the Land

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Identity

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Monopoly over the Data — Cloud

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Monopoly on providing a currency

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Bitcoin began the separation of Money & State.

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The Nation-State as the only institutional global actor

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What comes next?

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Our governance structures

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What do we want instead?

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What would you like it to be? What are the symptoms of a highly functioning democracy? What in a community signals that they live in a democracy that works?

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Who do we trust?

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Our representatives average between 0.0003% - 0.001%* of the voting population *New Scientist

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Learn how to trust ourselves

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In Direct Democracy every user has one direct vote. In Liquid Democracy voting power can be delegated 21

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We can give ourselves an identity

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Voting mechanism

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! Argentina

Mexico

& Nigeria " Brazil % South Africa $ Chile ) India ' Kenya ( Venezuela

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What jurisdictions?

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Currencies are belief systems \

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Will cryptocurrency communities become the constituencies of non territorial jurisdiction?

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What does great democracy look like?

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Identity Representation Jurisdictions Voting Mechanism Currency ownership

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller

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Let’s talk more: @piamancini @democracyearth pia@democracy.earth