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CreateVillage: Empowering Citizen Cooperation
CreateVillage: A Process for Empowering Citizen\\Cooperation and Achieving Sustainable Development
The success of any community relies on the empowerment of and control by its individuals, not on hierarchical win/lose democracy, but on re-creating a “village” dynamics which is personally, locally and globally inclusive. For this, we need a process that encourages cooperation and promotes sustainable development. Such a process now exists and it's called CreateVillage. It's a process that could create a new culture through a discussion process to empower individuals at the grassroots level first.
CreateVillage is not about politics but about cultural change, and it is designed to allow public input through a virtual public roundtable and post-it-notes. It is an inclusive, public platform to bring focus by using a format that anyone can see and understand. The process is almost like a Wiki entry. It starts with casual public input on a platform like Twitter and eventually leads to the creation of an agreement or "constitution" that is arrived at through discussion in relevant threads.
As we have seen with Twitter, the truth can be found on such a public platform, so CreateVillage is a platform that allows for ongoing and efficient public insights and updates from anywhere on the planet. The CreateVillage process seeks to challenge the traditional democracy model, which puts power ahead of truth. CreateVillage upholds a "Truth Seeking" process. It can start with small matters or large to inspire community action.
CreateVillage is a process for subsidiarity and sustainable development, so it is a bottom-DOWN process to uphold the principle of\\n"Subsidiarity," which allows for the devolution of power to the local\\nand personal. It is a www platform to allow for easy skill sharing and encourage slow thought and respect while upholding personal accountability. The CreateVillage process is built into an app and template that is publicly and freely accessible, allowing for discussion and decision-making.
The CreateVillage process and app is already operational, and\\nit is an excellent tool for community development, particularly for public housing projects which inspired its design to empower self-management under government terms, where mutual obligations for receipt of welfare can now be met through community development.
By proving itself there first, among the poorest first where\\nthe need for empowerment is greatest, it can be popularised and spread, fed by\\nour growing and urgent need for security through social collaboration and sustainable development.
A collaborative self-management process is increasingly important rather than waiting on changes to be agreed to by politics and majority rule before action is taken. CreateVillage is ready to facilitate that.
Basically, CreateVillage is a process that seeks to empower individuals at the grassroots level and promote sustainable development. It is a www platform that encourages citizen cooperation, allows for easy skill sharing, and promotes personal accountability. It is a bottom-DOWN process that upholds the principle of "Subsidiarity" and allows for the devolution\\nof power to the personal and local level. With CreateVillage, we can create a new culture that is built on truth, empowerment, and sustainable development.
In a simplified video explainer, the basic process of public discussion is shown using CreateVillage to structure wide public discussion to efficiently include any number of people and views. When Truth Seeking is public, deceptions become too embarrassing to defend and we become more accountable for what we say and do.
The real involvement of policy makers in public discussion is increasingly more necessary.
Politicians who avoid genuine engagement and deliberation as we see them do in Twitter where they stay away from personal responsibility and use it for propaganda only. They can be easily exposed by participants in CreateVillage and the longer they avoid real engagement they are seen as self-promoters who avoid being accountable for their position.
Precision from the outset is vital in any cooperative undertaking.
Seeking or giving cooperation on the basis of vague ideas and motherhood statements can be deceptive and we are then easily further manipulated\\nby group loyalty, but clarity disarms the power of manipulation and empowers every participant to make a much more meaningful, sustaining & enduring decision for involvement. CreateVillage is proposed as a true bottom-down process that defuses spin or mistaken impressions at the outset through a transparent process of open deliberation.
CreateVillage is a forum and "truth seeking" tool where lies and deceptions are quickly exposed to arrive at constitutionally sound decisions consensually. The principle of subsidiarity helps prevent handing over community power to hierarchy or leaders.
It is noted that in the public housing project that it was first designed for, the CreateVillage app has sustainable development as its pre-ordained value as a constant guide to its horizontal organizer and in enacting #NthatW outcomes (the public housing concept mentioned previously)
CreateVillage is for self-organising collaboration without creating leaders or hierarchy, a cause of corruption, disempowerment, and exploitation.
Finally, this paper proposes that this discussion and decision-making process should start small, be refined and prove itself before it can be expected to grow in popularity and become a corrective to the current system.
CreateVillage is an online process and format hereby anyone can add virtual post-it notes in the most appropriate threads to invite debate and refine statements, identify tasks, and calendarize them for voluntary action by any participant, casual or regular
FURTHER READING ON THE ISSUES
Olúfemi O. Táíwò
“In the absence of the right kind of checks and constraints the subgroup of people with power over access to the resources used to describe define and create political realities … in other words the elites … will capture the group’s values forcing people to coordinate on a narrower social project that disproportionately represents elite interests. When elites run the show the interests of the group get whittled down to what they have in common with those at the top at best, at worst elites fight for their own narrow interests using the banners of group solidarity.”
“A prime example of deference politics is the call “to listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalised” now ubiquitous in many academic and activist circles. These calls have never sat well with me. In my experience as an academic and organiser, when people have said they need to listen to the most affected it was usually because they intended to set up Skype calls to refugee camps or to collaborate with house houseless people. Acting on this conception of centring the most marginalised would require a different approach entirely in a world where 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing (slum conditions) and 100 million are unhoused, a full third of the human population does not have reliable drinking water and the intersections of food energy and water insecurity with the climate crisis have already displaced 8.5 million people in South Asia alone while threatening to displace tens of millions more. Such a stance would require at a minimum that one leave the room. Instead, centring the most marginalised in my experience has usually meant handling ending conversation with authority and attentional goods to whoever is already in the room and appears to fit a social category associated with some form of oppression, regardless of what they have or have not actually experienced or what they do or do not actually know about the matter at hand. Even in rooms where stakes have been high, potential researches were discussing how to understand a social phenomenon, where activists were deciding what to target. The rules of deference have often meant that the conversation stayed in the room while the people most affected by it stayed outside”
Olúfemi O. Táíwò
Olúfemi O. Táíwò is assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and the American Philosophical Association newsletter Philosophy and the Black Experience.
Táíwò's theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contempo- rary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
His public philosophy, including articles exploring inter- sections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, The Appeal, Slate, Al Jazeera, the New Republic, Aeon, and Foreign Policy.
He is the author of the book Reconsidering Reparations, published by Oxford University Press.
CreateVillage: Empowering Citizen Cooperation
CreateVillage: A Process for Empowering Citizen\\Cooperation and Achieving Sustainable Development
The success of any community relies on the empowerment of and control by its individuals, not on hierarchical win/lose democracy, but on re-creating a “village” dynamics which is personally, locally and globally inclusive. For this, we need a process that encourages cooperation and promotes sustainable development. Such a process now exists and it's called CreateVillage. It's a process that could create a new culture through a discussion process to empower individuals at the grassroots level first.
CreateVillage is not about politics but about cultural change, and it is designed to allow public input through a virtual public roundtable and post-it-notes. It is an inclusive, public platform to bring focus by using a format that anyone can see and understand. The process is almost like a Wiki entry. It starts with casual public input on a platform like Twitter and eventually leads to the creation of an agreement or "constitution" that is arrived at through discussion in relevant threads.
As we have seen with Twitter, the truth can be found on such a public platform, so CreateVillage is a platform that allows for ongoing and efficient public insights and updates from anywhere on the planet. The CreateVillage process seeks to challenge the traditional democracy model, which puts power ahead of truth. CreateVillage upholds a "Truth Seeking" process. It can start with small matters or large to inspire community action.
CreateVillage is a process for subsidiarity and sustainable development, so it is a bottom-DOWN process to uphold the principle of\\n"Subsidiarity," which allows for the devolution of power to the local\\nand personal. It is a www platform to allow for easy skill sharing and encourage slow thought and respect while upholding personal accountability. The CreateVillage process is built into an app and template that is publicly and freely accessible, allowing for discussion and decision-making.
The CreateVillage process and app is already operational, and\\nit is an excellent tool for community development, particularly for public housing projects which inspired its design to empower self-management under government terms, where mutual obligations for receipt of welfare can now be met through community development.
By proving itself there first, among the poorest first where\\nthe need for empowerment is greatest, it can be popularised and spread, fed by\\nour growing and urgent need for security through social collaboration and sustainable development.
A collaborative self-management process is increasingly important rather than waiting on changes to be agreed to by politics and majority rule before action is taken. CreateVillage is ready to facilitate that.
Basically, CreateVillage is a process that seeks to empower individuals at the grassroots level and promote sustainable development. It is a www platform that encourages citizen cooperation, allows for easy skill sharing, and promotes personal accountability. It is a bottom-DOWN process that upholds the principle of "Subsidiarity" and allows for the devolution\\nof power to the personal and local level. With CreateVillage, we can create a new culture that is built on truth, empowerment, and sustainable development.
In a simplified video explainer, the basic process of public discussion is shown using CreateVillage to structure wide public discussion to efficiently include any number of people and views. When Truth Seeking is public, deceptions become too embarrassing to defend and we become more accountable for what we say and do.
The real involvement of policy makers in public discussion is increasingly more necessary.
Politicians who avoid genuine engagement and deliberation as we see them do in Twitter where they stay away from personal responsibility and use it for propaganda only. They can be easily exposed by participants in CreateVillage and the longer they avoid real engagement they are seen as self-promoters who avoid being accountable for their position.
Precision from the outset is vital in any cooperative undertaking.
Seeking or giving cooperation on the basis of vague ideas and motherhood statements can be deceptive and we are then easily further manipulated\\nby group loyalty, but clarity disarms the power of manipulation and empowers every participant to make a much more meaningful, sustaining & enduring decision for involvement. CreateVillage is proposed as a true bottom-down process that defuses spin or mistaken impressions at the outset through a transparent process of open deliberation.
CreateVillage is a forum and "truth seeking" tool where lies and deceptions are quickly exposed to arrive at constitutionally sound decisions consensually. The principle of subsidiarity helps prevent handing over community power to hierarchy or leaders.
It is noted that in the public housing project that it was first designed for, the CreateVillage app has sustainable development as its pre-ordained value as a constant guide to its horizontal organizer and in enacting #NthatW outcomes (the public housing concept mentioned previously)
CreateVillage is for self-organising collaboration without creating leaders or hierarchy, a cause of corruption, disempowerment, and exploitation.
Finally, this paper proposes that this discussion and decision-making process should start small, be refined and prove itself before it can be expected to grow in popularity and become a corrective to the current system.
CreateVillage is an online process and format hereby anyone can add virtual post-it notes in the most appropriate threads to invite debate and refine statements, identify tasks, and calendarize them for voluntary action by any participant, casual or regular
FURTHER READING ON THE ISSUES
Olúfemi O. Táíwò
“In the absence of the right kind of checks and constraints the subgroup of people with power over access to the resources used to describe define and create political realities … in other words the elites … will capture the group’s values forcing people to coordinate on a narrower social project that disproportionately represents elite interests. When elites run the show the interests of the group get whittled down to what they have in common with those at the top at best, at worst elites fight for their own narrow interests using the banners of group solidarity.”
“A prime example of deference politics is the call “to listen to the most affected” or “centre the most marginalised” now ubiquitous in many academic and activist circles. These calls have never sat well with me. In my experience as an academic and organiser, when people have said they need to listen to the most affected it was usually because they intended to set up Skype calls to refugee camps or to collaborate with house houseless people. Acting on this conception of centring the most marginalised would require a different approach entirely in a world where 1.6 billion people live in inadequate housing (slum conditions) and 100 million are unhoused, a full third of the human population does not have reliable drinking water and the intersections of food energy and water insecurity with the climate crisis have already displaced 8.5 million people in South Asia alone while threatening to displace tens of millions more. Such a stance would require at a minimum that one leave the room. Instead, centring the most marginalised in my experience has usually meant handling ending conversation with authority and attentional goods to whoever is already in the room and appears to fit a social category associated with some form of oppression, regardless of what they have or have not actually experienced or what they do or do not actually know about the matter at hand. Even in rooms where stakes have been high, potential researches were discussing how to understand a social phenomenon, where activists were deciding what to target. The rules of deference have often meant that the conversation stayed in the room while the people most affected by it stayed outside”
Olúfemi O. Táíwò
Olúfemi O. Táíwò is assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and the American Philosophical Association newsletter Philosophy and the Black Experience.
Táíwò's theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contempo- rary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
His public philosophy, including articles exploring inter- sections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, The Appeal, Slate, Al Jazeera, the New Republic, Aeon, and Foreign Policy.
He is the author of the book Reconsidering Reparations, published by Oxford University Press.