Most of us would agree - no matter where we live in this world - that our governments do not work the best way, they do not represent us very well.
In Britain for example only one third of people (33%) think the present system of governing the country works 'well' or 'extremely well' – and an overwhelming majority of the public feel they have ‘not very much influence’ or ‘no influence at all’ over decision-making in both their local area (73%) and the country as a whole (85%). (Source: Hansard Society)
We need to refresh democracy world-wide and that is what CivilSummit is about.
CivilSummit will be a web application that will let each registered user learn about, debate and vote on official initatives that are being discussed in the parliament.
How it makes a difference
CivilSummit will be extremely user-friendly, accessible to the widest possible audience throughout the world.
Once a user signs up, the user will get notifications about initiatives of their local and regional community and of their national parliament that are being discussed at the time.
Users will be able to access a short summary of each initiative, their full-texts, related blog posts and news articles. They will also have the possibility to join the debate about them on the CivilSummit platform and last but not least: they will be able to make a stand and vote on them.
Users' activity will be visible to their followers (if they agree to it), allowing the information to go viral and like this, each initiative will get a lot of votes, millions of voices that will inform the politicians about the public opinion and they will have to react to it. This dialogue will create a better political culture in each country where CivilSummit is in use.
By strengthening democracies world-wide, we will be able to have more power in our communities, we will be able to trace and influence where our tax money is spent, bring countries and people closer to each other and shape the world where we and the future generations will feel more at home.
