Ideals, Values and Mission

Our ideals

We believe that new technologies and win-win relationships between individuals and communities can lead to sustainable human growth and an evolution of Collective Intelligence .

Today, as never before, we have tools that can lead us to greater human dignity and, at the same time, promote social development .

The values we want to promote

• Participation
• Transparency
• Dialogue
• Equity
• Competence

 

These values, which had guided us in the development of the Airesis open source platform , are the same ones that animate this blog today; we summarize them like this:

• • Participation
    Involving many people means having more energy, more points of view, more solutions.
  • Transparency
    Without transparency, the rules can be easily circumvented, it also means openness, the ability to welcome.
  • Dialogue
    With the right tools, working out ideas with multiple hands can be much more productive than doing it yourself.
  • Equity
    Equity means effective equality of opportunity and equal opportunity.
  • Competence
    The best ideas need to emerge clearly and spontaneously

Our mission

Democratic Technologies aims to encourage participation in collective decisions , through innovations and processes that guarantee greater democracy, synergy, consensus and effectiveness in achieving shared solutions .

We encourage the use of participation tools to foster collaboration between communities : large or small; We facilitate the transparent sharing of powers to allow each individual to be the "author" of his own individual life and that of the collective to which he belongs , whether near or far.

Tools of this type can be applied where it is necessary to make shared choices through Community Governance processes : from municipalities to companies , from associations to condominiums , from political parties to movements , but also in schools or groups of friends .

More generally, we aim to generate informed consent , and therefore collect everyone's skills , experiences , creativity and critical spirit during decision-making processes.

This is why we work on several fronts to:

• Analyze the limits of current decision-making processes , to understand how to overcome them , also investigating new technologies and recent social trends.
• Offer, review and adapt new technologies and processes that favor:
  • the participation and involvement of all stakeholders in the decision-making process , encouraging the spirit of community.
  • transparent and in-depth information for an informed choice and the use, where possible, of the scientific method.
  • the involvement of appropriate skills for collaboration on collective projects and proposals.
  • accessibility to the decision-making process and equal opportunities for the actors involved to see their point of view accepted.
  • the efficiency of the decision-making system assessed on the basis of the time and resources used, but also the quality of the choices and the correspondence between the real effects of the choices and the expected / desired effects.
• Reconstruct a picture of the state of the art of new technologies and tools for democracy , such as:
  • Electronic Voting
  • Social Networks
  • Fact checking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Collaborative proposals and petitions
  • E-Governance tools
  • Open Data
  • Gamification
  • Participatory budgets
  • Deliberative polls
  • Virtual assemblies
• Identify the most suitable technologies and tools for each context , from the school assembly to the cooperative, from the neighborhood to the global dimension.
• Address threats to social justice and emerging problems, identifying new solutions to prevent them.
• Provide guidance and guidance to individuals, organizations and institutions of all kinds interested in experimenting and implementing participatory processes based on the consent method through the use of technological tools and innovative processes .