Difference between revisions of "Convivial Systems"
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===Convivial government=== | ===Convivial government=== | ||
| − | A convivial government would be oriented towards serving all of citizens. This involves providing convivial service systems to enhance citizen well-being, and also providing means for greater citizen input, as foreseen by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_2.0 Gov 2.0 movement]. But above it implies maximizing the level of democratic involvement of all citizens. (That increasing democratization is a fundamental historical trend has been persuasively expounded by Devezas and Modelski in their theory of [http://www.cyberpotato.net/?p=169 agent-based social learning].) | + | A convivial government would be oriented towards serving all of citizens. This involves providing convivial service systems to enhance citizen well-being, and also providing means for greater citizen input, as foreseen by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_2.0 Gov 2.0 movement]. But above all it implies maximizing the level of democratic involvement of all citizens. (That increasing democratization is a fundamental historical trend has been persuasively expounded by Devezas and Modelski in their theory of [http://www.cyberpotato.net/?p=169 agent-based social learning].) |
===Convivial virtual community=== | ===Convivial virtual community=== | ||
| − | A convivial virtual community would provide a system of internal governance oriented towards serving all of its members. This implies that it would be organized as a democracy. It might function as a consumer cooperative (see for example the description of | + | A convivial virtual community would provide a system of internal governance oriented towards serving all of its members. This implies that it would be organized as a democracy. It might also function as a consumer cooperative (see for example the description of a [[Cooperative Social Network]]). |
Also, in line with the idea of convivial tools being developed and maintained by a community, the software underlying the convivial virtual community might be developed on the open-source model. | Also, in line with the idea of convivial tools being developed and maintained by a community, the software underlying the convivial virtual community might be developed on the open-source model. | ||
