OUR SYSTEM

This new US website seeks to strengthen the impact of email and social networks on elected representatives. It does this by verifying that the correspondence is from registered voters in the United States, and thus filters out the spam and noise that generally undermines the power and effectiveness of emails and social networks. Votizen calls it "Empowering Voters Between Elections" which is what open democracy is all about. In Votizen's words: "Votizen provides an authenticated platform that directly connects registered voters and elected officials through social networks, making civic engagement simpler and more meaningful. By verifying that each voice belongs to a real voter in the real world, Votizen legitimizes social media in politics and increases the influence of voting citizens in guiding the day-to-day decisions of our elected officials. Votizen claims that: "Our voter-focused tools led to the first bill driven into the US Senate by social media alone ...

That's what our organisations and our regulations need to be able to do. If they can't do this then they aren't dealing with us as the diverse humans we are and they will harm us. This calls for a relinquishing of control to the general membership of the organisation so that they can make the decisions on how clients are catered for. These decisions are recorded and accountable, but they are also individual, with the over-riding purpose being to assist the client, not fit them into a regulation or method that doesn't suit them. John Seddon's ' Systems Thinking ' is the closest thing I've seen to making this happen in reality.