Background
In a democratic system, the rules of social coexistence can only be valid if people, after having created their own laws, accept and observe them. In today’s representative democracies, the legislature doesn’t work like this. Citizens do not participate in the process of law making; they usually follow the events passively as a supporter for one of the political parties.
However, for a while now, the Internet has made it possible for us to freely get informed, and thus to become capable of independently forming our own opinions and, based on our knowledge, of deciding. Even though the technical limits disappeared at least a decade ago, with the attitude of today’s politics, the introduction of systems that could realize a more participative democracy, with the help of the Internet, seems an impossible task.
It is equally important for every political party to obtain and retain power, all of them think that their job is to take care of public affairs and that ours is to vote for them every four years. Nevertheless, more and more people are starting to feel that it’s time for a change.
The internet could make possible a much more direct dialogue between citizens and politicians than what the current representative and bureaucratic system can offer, which is why new democratic associations and demonstrations against certain law proposals are organised in the virtual space that, having achieved the critical mass, may change politics or even world history.
Idea
In view of such background we have decided to create an application specially built for the social networks which would take the importance of spontaneous organizations to a higher level by honoring the demand of voters for a greater say in the policy-shaping process and which would maximize the force of public pressure exerted on politicians while also prompting people to participate in public matters who have lost all faith in common representation built upon a consensus.
The application has been given the name “Civilzone” as a project title.
The Civilzone project has been established by a team of youngsters committed towards democracy and the development of new web technologies.
In a democratic system, the rules of social coexistence can only be valid if people, after having created their own laws, accept and observe them. In today’s representative democracies, the legislature doesn’t work like this. Citizens do not participate in the process of law making; they usually follow the events passively as a supporter for one of the political parties.