United Peoples: Global Governance on the Blockchain Proposal

[snowswons]

This is an article I've been putting together about a global governance model on the blockchain.   

The original article (on Steemit) is quite long.  So I'm posting the initial abstract here.

Would love to get some community feedback & support.   

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United Peoples


A Fairly Distributed, Transparent, Efficient, Trust-Based model for Economics, Education and Global Governance in the 21st Century.


Abstract

The United Peoples is a proposal for a grassroots, global governing structure that has its leadership directly selected from a pool of qualified citizens through a random sortition, secured and incentivised by modern blockchain-based structures and mechanisms.

Sortion (also known as demarchy) is a method of randomly choosing public officials by lot. Utilised in Ancient Greece, sortition both provided a political education for its citizens as well as a practical application of the principles of equality.

Sortition has many proposed advantages over democracies, in terms of efficiencies, fairness, and security against corrupting influences, as summarised below:

• Sortition eliminates the need for expensive campaigns with charismatic, crowd-charming, career politicians.
• The relative ease of selecting candidates through sortition can allow for non-disruptive, staggered and efficient transitions of a single member to the next without entirely changing governments.
• A strong likelihood of an accurate representation of actual demographics, including age and gender.
• Lobbying, grooming, bribing, and influencing becomes more difficult due to the randomness of the final selection process.
• Sortition reduces the conditions and avenues of power that allow political parties, special interests, and oligarchies to form.
• Sortition tends to put the public officer back into public life, ideally incentivising honest behaviour.

Both the advantages and disadvantages of a simple and pure sortition-based system comes from the randomness of the selection method. Our proposed model has a number of features that address disadvantages through both the design of its control mechanisms, economic structure and technological framework.


Some of these features are:

• Applicants are asked to meet certain criteria to fit the job description of the office. The final selection may be random, but the overall applicants for any given position are not.
• Initial applications are put in a temporary pool that is on the blockchain, to be secure and publicly auditable. At any time, the public can view any volunteers that have applied for any position of governance.
• A Qualifying Body (QB) is established to check against the job requirements before being selected for the final sortition pool.
• A final pool of qualified applicants are placed in a blockchain-based database. Due to the nature of a blockchain database, every entry, decision and change is secure, transparent and tracked publicly. This helps ensure that the QB is definitely acting in an honest fashion.
• Each major position has a unique start and end date to help prevent disruptions to governance. These dates are overlapped so the prior UP officer can train the new position holder.
• A cryptocurrency (called Lift in this proposal) is associated with the United Peoples organisation. Some of the annual inflation rewards are allocated to the Treasury of the United Peoples.
• Being selected to any high position assigns this individual the keys to a budget, that is a portion of the Treasury. This is used by leader of a department to enact the policies, goals and tasks they are assigned to accomplish.
• Officers within the United Peoples may call an internal petition to trigger a vote of non-confidence on any fellow position holder, to remove ineffectual leaders from office.
• The public may also call for a public vote to remove a United Peoples officer or QB member, if a public petition reaches a certain threshold. This substitutes the right for voting in for a right to vote out. Ideally, voting out would be less frequent, and therefore more efficient.
• Any successful vote of removal, also instantly removes all access (keys) to the Treasury and any official labels of authority (ie. inter-organisational voting privileges).

The blockchain-based underlining structure ensures that the steps taken towards positions of governance—and power—are transparent and have strong levels of accountability that go beyond traditional systems of governance today.

The complete article is at: https://steemit.com/life/@jkelsey/united-peoples

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[Xester]

This idea is new to me and I am amazed that such kind of governance could actually occur without spending too much in an electoral process. But the problem with this kind of system is that the people who are currently governing the world are corrupt and greedy and this means that the possibility of your proposal to be approved is very low. Especially to third world countries whose political culture are tainted by political dynasty and a government whose leaders are made out of businessmen and are making laws to protect their business rather than the public good.

I am working in a government and the kind of system you are proposing could change the current selection of leaders but sadly we need a change and a revolution before your proposal could be adopted in any country in the world.

On the other side blockchain technology could be adopted in governance but the electoral process could be impossible in todays society.

[snowswons]

Thanks for the feedback!    

...But the problem with this kind of system is that the people who are currently governing the world are corrupt and greedy and this means that the possibility of your proposal to be approved is very low....

This is why, in the linked article, I say that:

"Yet this proposal makes no assumptions on whether it shall be granted legitimacy by existing institutions and world governments; instead UP looks to be granted legitimacy by the global civic body directly through its grassroots approach."

With the many governance models of projects such as Dash, Cardano, EOS, Steemit there is some strong potential that the mechanisms could be sound.  Add the currency as a potential incentive to attract the right, qualified applicants and let the sortition algorithm randomly select each shortlisted applicant.   Give each winner—of each department—the keys to a portion of the organisation's Treasury as a budget for their department and observe closely as they work together with each department to solve problems and mandates identified by the head (Global Secretary).   If they don't accomplish their goals.. they'll get voted out.

If Open Source, global organisations can accomplish as much as they do, then there is some potential for a borderless organisation such as the United Peoples, to potentially accomplish much as well.   No approval needed with this decentralised blockchain-based approach.   Ideally this organisation, once it gains a decent amount of traction, could try to gain a level of legitimacy so as to interface and cooperate at a higher, more efficient level.  But if greed, fear, and corruption entirely put the brakes on... no absolute need for 'approval' (besides approval amongst the main world populace... which should increase if the organisation does legitimate good consistently).