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CoMakery / self-organization-constitution

An open source constitution for responsive organizations. Inspired by Sociocracy, Holacracy, Self-Management, Reinventing Organizations, etc.
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No possibility for representing non-present members #4

Open fractastical opened 8 years ago

fractastical commented 8 years ago

Most flat governmental models have a one member one vote model, which generally requires the member to perform an action each time a vote is needed. This is frequently time intensive and does not take into account members that are not able to be present at the time of a governmental action.

Also interesting is that some tribal models take into account the ostensible wishes of ancestors or other non-physical entities which have no obvious representation in any of these models.

Delegated democracy / liquid democracy ostensibly allows vote delegation. Not sure of any modern or technologically enhanced system that explicitly uses or includes the tribal model.

djwesto commented 8 years ago

Wow, what an interesting idea. Can you paint a picture of how you think this might work practically?

Aside from ancestors, what about those who are yet to be born?