[ANN] ACT- Citizens First🔥Supporting Social Justice and Social Accountability🔥

[steinkopf]

I'm just wondering, if to create something by ppls for ppl, especially when you use pics like that on the top...to do good things, why not to do it free to use, why to buy votes? I think something is missing to make a project wanted and needed, it could be a project that could really help ppl, but now it looks anyways..more commercial rather than social/charity...maybe my impression was wrong

steinkopf. You might be interested to compare the models of Avaaz and Change.org. One is non profit and the other for profit. For us, sustainability of ACT is all-important. We feel that it should not be an organization looking for handouts (and paying a large team to find them!). Would love to discuss this more with you, and thank you for making such an insightful point. It might also be interesting for you to review the white paper where you will see the discussion around the price of votes. The initial price we are considering is 10 cents, which most can afford. ACT will achieve scale through aggregate support of the many.

Thanks for giving those examples, so the question is, there are some stable  organizations that work for decades and promote global activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, etc. They are the largest and most powerful online activist networks - so why we need one more here on crypto which has commercial system like many ICOs, and to be honest probably the negative impact did the photo you used in the opening post, as in case you want to do something good why to put the picture of a disabled child, like physiological effect - look guys you can help? Sorry but disabled child and buy tokens to have option to vote...don't for me.

[daoact]

Thanks for giving those examples, so the question is, there are some stable  organizations that work for decades and promote global activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, etc. They are the largest and most powerful online activist networks - so why we need one more here on crypto which has commercial system like many ICOs, and to be honest probably the negative impact did the photo you used in the opening post, as in case you want to do something good why to put the picture of a disabled child, like physiological effect - look guys you can help? Sorry but disabled child and buy tokens to have option to vote...don't for me.

Thank you for taking the time to follow up.

Ok, so the later point is good to address. This case study of "Lena" has become the focus of "explaining" ACT. Her story is the main theme of our explainer video, and many other narratives. As well as catching people's attention visually that this is a social cause, the other main reason to use it is consistency. We could have chosen a big systemic issue as a centre pin for the message, but this story of disabled access is just so perfectly pitched to what social justice is about at its core, that we just love putting it forward.

On the other points, you might be referring to the Avaaz platform that now boasts 44 million members from 194 countries, or Change.org, which claims over 178 million “people taking action” (it is actually a for-profit company that Forbes reported in 2012 had revenues over $15 million with 20 million members). These platforms are growing incredibly fast but they started life as digital signature gathering websites. Change.org became profitable by allowing petition makers to sponsor content, and Avaaz (a non-profit) now regularly fundraises for emotive causes handpicked by its elusive team. Both are centralised. What causes are promoted by each? Change.org - the one that pays most to sponsor its content, and Avaaz - the one that will grab the most subscribers attention. ACT is fundamentally different. The crowd decides absolutely everything in an entirely decentralised way, autonomously, immutably, unstoppably (if thats a word), and, above all, by consensus. There is a lot more we could say on this - am happy to do it here, or in pm.

[axlroses]

hi daoact i would like to reserve for indonesian translation.

[steinkopf]

Thanks for giving those examples, so the question is, there are some stable  organizations that work for decades and promote global activism on issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, etc. They are the largest and most powerful online activist networks - so why we need one more here on crypto which has commercial system like many ICOs, and to be honest probably the negative impact did the photo you used in the opening post, as in case you want to do something good why to put the picture of a disabled child, like physiological effect - look guys you can help? Sorry but disabled child and buy tokens to have option to vote...don't for me.

Thank you for taking the time to follow up.

Ok, so the later point is good to address. This case study of "Lena" has become the focus of "explaining" ACT. Her story is the main theme of our explainer video, and many other narratives. As well as catching people's attention visually that this is a social cause, the other main reason to use it is consistency. We could have chosen a big systemic issue as a centre pin for the message, but this story of disabled access is just so perfectly pitched to what social justice is about at its core, that we just love putting it forward.

On the other points, you might be referring to the Avaaz platform that now boasts 44 million members from 194 countries, or Change.org, which claims over 178 million “people taking action” (it is actually a for-profit company that Forbes reported in 2012 had revenues over $15 million with 20 million members). These platforms are growing incredibly fast but they started life as digital signature gathering websites. Change.org became profitable by allowing petition makers to sponsor content, and Avaaz (a non-profit) now regularly fundraises for emotive causes handpicked by its elusive team. Both are centralised. What causes are promoted by each? Change.org - the one that pays most to sponsor its content, and Avaaz - the one that will grab the most subscribers attention. ACT is fundamentally different. The crowd decides absolutely everything in an entirely decentralised way, autonomously, immutably, unstoppably (if thats a word), and, above all, by consensus. There is a lot more we could say on this - am happy to do it here, or in pm.

It's written that ACT members votes are “purchased” by donations of ETH (digital currency). in case ACT is interested in donations, why you are accepting any crypto currency or fiat why ETH only?
Who will be in DAOACT -that will decide that project is valid or not? What is the policy for that?
Where are how the funds spending will be published or tracked by regular users? And I didn't understand as soon as me as member bought token spent it on the voice, in what currency the payment will be made? In tokens? in USD? and based on what exchange rate?

[daoact]

It's written that ACT members votes are “purchased” by donations of ETH (digital currency). in case ACT is interested in donations, why you are accepting any crypto currency or fiat why ETH only?
Who will be in DAOACT -that will decide that project is valid or not? What is the policy for that?
Where are how the funds spending will be published or tracked by regular users? And I didn't understand as soon as me as member bought token spent it on the voice, in what currency the payment will be made? In tokens? in USD? and based on what exchange rate?

Thank you for taking the time to follow up with these detailed questions. Let me address those them as best I can:

> It's written that ACT members votes are “purchased” by donations of ETH (digital currency). in case ACT is interested in donations, why you are accepting any crypto currency or fiat why ETH only?

One of the interesting things about this space is that the user-friendliness of crypto is growing fast. By November this year, there could be many developments that influence what ACT Beta looks like. Its a great function of the community to help navigate every opportunity including this that you mention.

> Who will be in DAOACT -that will decide that project is valid or not? What is the policy for that?

This is the magic. Much of the white paper is devoted to describing the ACE (Act Curation Engine). ACT holders vet or curate proposals. ACT and ACTION (the vesting token) are reward tokens that incentivise accurate and thorough curation of proposals.

> Where are how the funds spending will be published or tracked by regular users? And I didn't understand as soon as me as member bought token spent it on the voice, in what currency the payment will be made? In tokens? in USD? and based on what exchange rate?

The great thing about blockchain is the transparency around transactions, but more details will come out during Beta development. Transparency is fundamental as you point out. When a quorum is reached the proposal maker is funded by the smart contract in ETH. But remember what you pay for votes is pooled and it is the crowd that decides how the aggregated funds are directed.

Hope this helps!

[steinkopf]

It's written that ACT members votes are “purchased” by donations of ETH (digital currency). in case ACT is interested in donations, why you are accepting any crypto currency or fiat why ETH only?
Who will be in DAOACT -that will decide that project is valid or not? What is the policy for that?
Where are how the funds spending will be published or tracked by regular users? And I didn't understand as soon as me as member bought token spent it on the voice, in what currency the payment will be made? In tokens? in USD? and based on what exchange rate?

Thank you for taking the time to follow up with these detailed questions. Let me address those them as best I can:

> It's written that ACT members votes are “purchased” by donations of ETH (digital currency). in case ACT is interested in donations, why you are accepting any crypto currency or fiat why ETH only?

One of the interesting things about this space is that the user-friendliness of crypto is growing fast. By November this year, there could be many developments that influence what ACT Beta looks like. Its a great function of the community to help navigate every opportunity including this that you mention.

> Who will be in DAOACT -that will decide that project is valid or not? What is the policy for that?

This is the magic. Much of the white paper is devoted to describing the ACE (Act Curation Engine). ACT holders vet or curate proposals. ACT and ACTION (the vesting token) are reward tokens that incentivise accurate and thorough curation of proposals.

> Where are how the funds spending will be published or tracked by regular users? And I didn't understand as soon as me as member bought token spent it on the voice, in what currency the payment will be made? In tokens? in USD? and based on what exchange rate?

The great thing about blockchain is the transparency around transactions, but more details will come out during Beta development. Transparency is fundamental as you point out. When a quorum is reached the proposal maker is funded by the smart contract in ETH. But remember what you pay for votes is pooled and it is the crowd that decides how the aggregated funds are directed.

Hope this helps!

Well, based on the activity I guess I'm the only one who read about is in such details, maybe I will read in more detail the whitepaper, but you know sometimes when you got this first impression which is hard to be changed even if you have reasons for that...like me, simply maybe most people just decided to skip feedback. Maybe you need to re-think why ppl are not so active even when the project has such a good idea as charity.

[daoact]

Well, based on the activity I guess I'm the only one who read about is in such details

Your support is greatly received! But, ACT was presented a last week in Berkeley University, and in Zurich this week at a major Sustainable Development Goals event. The bitcointalk forum is very important, and over time it will be a hub for discussion as we move past pre-ICO and development of the technologies accelerate.

You do realise that a $100 donated during the pre-ICO secures as many ACT Token as $1000 during the ICO? We feel that it is a great opportunity that we have made open instead of just for a "select few". I hope that we can continue the discussions, which are very valuable!

[daoact]

The project is very interesting and I am so excited to help you with Russian translation and moderation. I believe this app will help a lot of people in the future.

Thank you Sergei, we are excited about the support from the Russian speaking world. Our first Meetup presentation was in the Ukraine. We will contact you directly once our bounty portal is configured.

[Sergei.Gerasimenko]

Are there any news about bounty, dev?

[irfan_pak10]

Are there any news about bounty, dev?

Our bounty campaign thread is coming soon most probably coming Monday. You will have to apply in that thread.

Regards

[steinkopf]

Our bounty campaign thread is coming soon most probably coming Monday. You will have to apply in that thread.
Regards

Hi, good to know that you will do the bounty campaign as I see not so much interest at the moment, in case you have good bounty structure it will help to wake up the interest of ppl and start to talk about your project.

[jwiz168]

Well if it is going to be forecasted on Wings platform , the project must have great potentials. Keeping my eye on this one.

[daoact]

Our bounty campaign thread is coming soon most probably coming Monday. You will have to apply in that thread.
Regards

in case you have good bounty structure it will help to wake up the interest of ppl and start to talk about your project.

If you are hungry for some ACT Token you can complete these 9 questions and win 1000

[Sergei.Gerasimenko]

Our bounty campaign thread is coming soon most probably coming Monday. You will have to apply in that thread.
Regards

in case you have good bounty structure it will help to wake up the interest of ppl and start to talk about your project.

If you are hungry for some ACT Token you can complete these 9 questions and win 1000

Nice! I've already done it. Hoping to win.

[daoact]

Well if it is going to be forecasted on Wings platform , the project must have great potentials. Keeping my eye on this one.

Thank you jwiz168. This was our announcement together, and it is great to be working intensely with the team in these final stages.

Also, great quote from the Chair of the WINGS Foundation:  “ACT is a truly innovative concept in the cryptocurrency space focused on social good,¨ says Boris Povod, President of the WINGS Foundation Council, “We designed WINGS to allow people from all over the world to value and promote projects they believe in and are excited to have such a strong team comprised of ACT and their partner Draglet to be presented to the WINGS community.”

It makes us proud to be getting so much support from the community.

[kaneki007]

Our bounty campaign thread is coming soon most probably coming Monday. You will have to apply in that thread.
Regards

in case you have good bounty structure it will help to wake up the interest of ppl and start to talk about your project.

If you are hungry for some ACT Token you can complete these 9 questions and win 1000

i have done,i hope to win this 

[Alif Mahardika]

i want reserve indonesian translation, give me a chance i will give you my best. thanks, its a curious project for me. good luck and god bless you.

[ikhsanabi]

done to join give away, i hope this token can get best rate on exchange. thanks for give us the chance, i will follow development on the tread and keep waiting another bounty.

[MoneyJ]

Well if it is going to be forecasted on Wings platform , the project must have great potentials. Keeping my eye on this one.

Thank you jwiz168. This was our announcement together, and it is great to be working intensely with the team in these final stages.

Also, great quote from the Chair of the WINGS Foundation:  “ACT is a truly innovative concept in the cryptocurrency space focused on social good,¨ says Boris Povod, President of the WINGS Foundation Council, “We designed WINGS to allow people from all over the world to value and promote projects they believe in and are excited to have such a strong team comprised of ACT and their partner Draglet to be presented to the WINGS community.”

It makes us proud to be getting so much support from the community.

Look at what wings has done to its 2 previous forecasts... SOLD OUT on the same day it was launched. ACT will very well be following that trend.

[yubit]

I think ACT project will be useful & interesting. And I believe in ACT professional team and successful ico. Ready to forecast by Wings and waiting pre-ico.