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2:36 pm, March 25th, 2014 - 4 comments
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THE WORLD NEEDS A BETTER WAY TO MAKE DECISIONS TOGETHER.
Democracy isn’t just about politics – it’s people getting together and deciding how things should be. It’s a skill we can practice with people wherever we are: in our workplaces, our schools, and our communities.
Loomio is a user-friendly tool for collaborative decision-making: not majority-rules polling, but actually coming up with solutions that work for everyone. We’re a small team in New Zealand, and we’ve built a prototype that people are already doing great things with. Now we’re crowdfunding so we can build the real thing: a new tool for truly inclusive decision-making.
They are seeking crowd-funding, why not help out?
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
very cool… they probably should include a share offer to donors when it becomes a company, or now.
Thanks.
We’re a worker’s coop so there’s no equity in our case. Equity crowdfunding becomes legal on April 1st so what you suggest will be possible. Check out http://blog.pledgeme.co.nz/this-is-not-an-april-fools-joke-crowdfunding-moves-into-equity/
Very interesting space and there’s other developments on the horizon like issuing your own cryptocurrency, or cryptoshares for example
Simon from Loomio
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Always thought trying democracy would be a great idea.
Loomio’s crowd funding effort is probably one of the most positive initiatives on the democracy front right now. The software is used world-wide, has been translated into multiple languages – and has recently been adopted by a group in the Ukraine for example. In addition Loomio’s co-operative constitution is a model for other other future workers’s cooperatives. The NZ co-operatives legislation doesn’t work that well for worker’s co-operatives and so this work too is a huge gift to the co-operative sector and to the wider community.
If you can afford think about a contribution to help them launch the next release.