OWNYOURGOV.COM

Technology that expands the agency of every individual to lead collective impact at every level appropriate to ecological preservation consistent with the priorities of human life expressed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

Michael Winn founded Own Your Government, LLC in January 2019 after  designing a concept for cloud technology to provide inclusive leadership as an online town council for his community of Point Loma in San Diego. Winn's vision, love and passion for the project, and his experience in local government, educational media and advanced technology keeps the team focused and guides software development. Norman Katz, CTO, leads the software development teams.

3-4 hours per week will not be a problem.

Technology that expands the agency of every individual to lead collective impact at every level appropriate to ecological preservation consistent with the priorities of human life expressed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

At every level, leadership, of human collective impact is failing to preserve the planetary and local ecosystems that support our biological existence.

Imagine a discrete platform for your own community. There’s a news feed that lets you know what's going on with a button that lets you post comments or ask questions of people in your community. A streaming media channel is ready for user content. An AI reads aloud and helps learning, curates information and guides your interest. AI also fact checks your research and composes messages.

Theory of Change

While acquiring knowledge improves your performance, this platform  organizes studies and integrates your education with your life. It's like a library, TV studio and university, an infrastructure for learning, sharing information and organizing action. It can help obtain funding for alternative energy sources, homes, schools or clinics.

Polling functions engage people in consensus building for tackling community problems and earning while learning programs. Verified consensus on a community poll leads to collective action.

A poll in a village might ask, "Do you want to raise the grade of the road to [other village] and prevent large rigs from using it?” AI keeps track and offers solutions. Learning how to use the platform and then accomplishing things is transformative.

Below is a simplified plan of platform functions. Implementation begins with a series of live and hybrid community workshops in which initial participants are trained to train the community.

In the onboarding process the community learns about community resources and core values and adopts a framework of democracy, inclusivity, consesnsus and objectives for collective action.

• Algorithms use interactions to suggest consensus and propose polls.
• Participants learn in a process with a desired outcome.
• Access is limited to verified community members.
• Platform functions serve personal interests on demand:
• Members access information salient to their own needs and interests
• Members build, oppose and advocate consensus of the community
• Members initiate collective action within moral/ethical boundaries
• Collective action easily organized for collaborative enterprise
• Features attract and reward participation and enhance community identity
• AI helps ensure the veracity of vetted content

The platform is accessed with a connection to the worldwide web or a server at a data service center or it can be on a machine in the community accessed via a wifi or village LAN. A cloud instance of the framework can support many community platforms at a very low cost. A cloud framework will be hosted on redundant servers so it can be spun up quickly to recover in a new location. 

People learn that their agency expands through participation. They can see the effect their participation has produced.

The platform offers templates and professional support to form and manage community coops and otherwise support community objectives.

In the onboarding process the community learns about community resources and core values and adopts a framework of democracy, inclusivity, consesnsus and objectives for collective action.

Onboarding is initiated with the guidance of experts in neuroscience, social justice, psychology, economics, arts and education. The onboarding online environment follows principles of Montessori classrooms, however, AI assistants help community members find, organize and share information.

We rely on a compendium of historical research. We were unable to complete this material before the deadline, however, ur propositions are prima facie and we have carefully vetted our information. We are a practical company of designers and builders of software. We are not part of an academic program, nor are we the product of a research founation, albeir we continually use the product of scientific studies.This is why we are looking to Leap to assist this project.

It has revealed that human suffering will increase dramatically during this century unless this strategy is undertaken to provide efficacious leadership.

We have the ability to describe and design the technology and business plan and providing the analysis offered by Leap will be invaluable for us.

Basically, the same questions asked of applicants in this application. We are designers and builders.We have seen the problems and dealth with them in a practical sense and have created the solution. We are not a research foundation.

Sufficient information to answer the questions of investors, governments and local stakeholders.

We will be deploying the technology in beta communities around the world.

Verified consensus as an instrument of change can produce change when it is public and prominent. The idea that social media to influence government decisions is demonstrated. Social media has overcome established regimes and misconduct by powerful economic hierarchies. This solution empowers grassroots action on behalf of community consensus as a strategy to use the collective impact and resources of a community to nurture the economic prosperity experienced by its members. 

We target a cross-cultural transformation to overcome global inertia that impedes commitment that will end poverty and violence, and other conditions that inhibit personal and global prosperity. The world is very small today. A person born in a village in Madagascar may, as an adolescent, find herself in London, Bronx or Toronto, etc. This platform will prepare her and transform her experience of the world and v.v.. 

In a hypothetical scenario where a community platform like OwnYourGov has been successfully integrated into society for multiple generations, several aspects of the world would be different compared to a world without such a platform.

Here are some potential impacts:

Economic Equity: OYG's support for community-based fintech and economic empowerment initiatives leads to reduced economic disparities. The platform's commitment to entrepreneurship and equal participation results in a more economically equitable society.

Informed and Engaged Citizenry: OYG's commitment to listening, learning, and engaging citizens results in a population that is not only well-informed but actively contributes to civic matters. The platform's emphasis on self-expression and articulate communication fosters a culture of informed engagement.

Inclusive Decision-Making: The platform's core values, involving the community in decision-making, create an inclusive and transparent governance structure. OYG's emphasis on equal voice and vote ensures that decisions reflect a diverse range of perspectives, reducing marginalization.

Community-Driven Innovation: OYG's commitment to teamwork, creativity, and determination results in a society where innovation flourishes. Collective intelligence and collaboration become key drivers in solving local and global challenges.

Educational Transformation: OYG's integration into education systems, guided by virtues such as self-discipline and a commitment to learning, transforms education into an interactive and participatory experience. Students develop critical skills for active civic engagement from an early age.

Using transformational media to empower new ideas is implicit in art throughout history. Euripides and Aristophanes wrote and staged transformational plays with political aims in the 5th century BCE. OYG creates a virual online community with a forum similar to the Greek forum.

Participation depends on familliarity and community members generating  issues and content. The platform includes integrations with user-content platforms like TikTok and YouTube.

We plan to test elements of the software in our beta communities using onboarding workshops led by facilitators trained by Vanto Group and ThinkVirtues. We have proposed a study related to development of digital twins for cities to the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. MIT is a possible research candidate as well, related to uses of AI and Blockchain. In developing the beta community experiments, we will work with performing arts agencies and producers of transformational media.