What Exactly Is Direct Electronic Democracy?

The current system of “parliamentary democracy” was designed almost 300 years ago for a very different world (to put it mildly). Now it is so slow, complex, cumbersome and generally inefficient that it can no longer satisfy the needs of our fast-paced world.

Neither individuals nor organizations (nor entities such as cities, provinces, countries, etc.). In other words, it can not make them genuinely happy and thus has no place in a happiness-focused New Civilization.

Worse, it is so slow, complex, cumbersome and generally inefficient that it will be unable to cope with the next global (and inevitable) existential crisis – the one that might very well end our civilization as we know it.

Consequently, the murderously outdated system of parliamentary democracy must – and will – be replaced with a radically different system. The system that is sufficiently fast, lean, agile and capable of both making individuals, organizations and entities genuinely happy and coping with the inevitable existential crises.

We live in a global online community and in the age of an unprecedented empowerment of an individual. Consequently, this new system can only be Direct Electronic Democracy (DED) or Direct Online Democracy (DOD).

DOD is direct because it allows all citizens of the New Civilization to directly elect, influence and work with all executives at all levels – from the tiny village to the whole New Civilization.

Thus, eliminating the need for the intermediaries (parliaments) and doing away with so-called ‘representative democracy’. Which in reality, is not a democracy at all, as it represents about ; of the population.

DOD must – and will – be built upon the Direct Democracy Portal (DDP). Actually, upon the whole system of portals – one for each village, city, district, state, province, country and the whole New Civilization.

DOD is essentially not a ‘classic’ government system – but rather a partnership between individuals (citizens and non-citizens), governments, businesses, non-profits and other organizations aimed at making all of the above (and the entities themselves, of course) genuinely happy.