Democratic Experience Software - Summary
This group is not part of the GNU Project.
The goal of the Democratic Experience project is to develop a set of tools enabling the practice of direct democracy. This set of tools can be used on a local basis (within an group of people, a club, an association) or on a larger scale, to help a large group of people making decisions. In the Democratic Experience, thanks to a client-server architecture, any participant can submit a question in the form of a vote. All participants can then add « candidate answer » to this vote. Finally, the participants can vote using the Condorcet method. The wining answer is stored in a database which is structured into themes. This database becomes the « reference » that can be used to drive the decisions within the group. In order to avoid a possible overflow of votes to answer, each participant can choose to delegate his/her vote on a specific theme to another particpant.
The project aims at developping the server software (including vote handling, database management software, delegation management), the client software, and a database browser software.
The ultimate goal of the project is to apply this concept at different levels of the society in order to validate the concept of direct democracy.
Registration Date: Thu 05 Jun 2003 07:28:58 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
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