HOW NEW POWER TRANSFORMS DEMOCRACY

Presenter: Philip Kuo &

Joanne Doong

WHAT IS NEW POWERIn the last 20 years,

there has been a fundamental shift in the balance of power in the world.

New power is the deployment of mass participation and peer coordination to create change and shift outcomes.

Enabled by modern platforms

OLD POWER NEW POWER

OLD POWER VS. NEW POWEROld Power

Like Currency Held by few

Leader-driven Closed

Professionalization

New Power

Like Current Made by many

Peer-driven Open

Participation

SHIFTS TOWARD INCREASING TRANSPARENCY

EXAMPLES OF NEW POWERKickstarter raised over a billion dollars on projects from 5 million+ people

Airbnb anyone can run a hotel, disrupted hotel industry without owning a square foot of real estate

Uber highly scalable sharing economy platform

EXAMPLE OF OLD POWER

Apple perfection as governing ideology, only hire the best workers

NEW POWER IS SIGNIFICANT“Once you have an experience of new power,

you tend to expect and want more of it.”

NEW POWER TRANSFORMED BUSINESSES, IT CAN TRANSFORM POLITICS, TOO.

People feel more powerful with new power, it will be able to change the way we relate to

authority and institutions.

Politics can benefit a lot from mass participation and peer coordination,

with the power of internet, it is now possible to transform politics.

POLITICS, THEN AND NOW Old Times

In Athens, citizens came together to discuss issues

and create policy solutions.

(Direct Democracy)

We can choose our authorities, but we are completely left out on how those authorities reach their decisions.

Now

Language of government is cryptic, people feel that they don’t have

the adequate expert knowledge to contribute to political sphere, only politicians get to decide on issues.

(Indirect Democracy)

Political system remains the same for the past 200 years and expects us to be contented with being passive recipients.

Even if they do not want to become full time politicians, every citizen should be given a vote for every issue.

BUT ANY CITIZEN SHOULD HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THEIR VOICE BE HEARD

IN THE POLICY MAKING PROCESS.

Luckily, it’s possible with New Power.

Political action is being able to move from

agitation construction

NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEMDIRECT DEMOCRACY + INDIRECT DEMOCRACY + THE POWER OF INTERNET + CITIZENS PARTICIPATION / COLLABORATION

NEW POWER

WHAT IS NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM

It is about persuading and being persuaded. It is about reaching a consensus.

Instead of on a hill in Athens, we may meet in cyberspace. This made citizens participation possible once again.

A ONLINE DELEGATED VOTING SYSTEM THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT

THE KNOWLEDGE DISPARITY OF ITS PARTICIPANTS.

With easy-to-access New Power Democracy System, Everyone will have equal opportunity to discuss on issues.

Citizen

Specialists

Politician

Online Forum

Everyone are given a vote for every issue on the table.

POLICY /

Citizen Issue Yes/No

Citizen may also choose to delegate their vote to another person, whom they trust to make an informed decision in their place, for example.

POLICY /

Citizen Issue Yes/NoSpecialists

POLICY /

Citizen Issue Yes/NoSpecialists

They can also delegate those collected votes further on to yet somebody else, a politician who stands for a certain world view, for example.

Politician

Citizens may also take back their vote from others anytime.

WHEN TECHNOLOGY MEETS POLITICS, IT ALLOWS FOR A MORE DYNAMIC AND EMERGING SOCIAL LEADERSHIP.- Philip Kuo & Joanne Doong

NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM FEATURES

Transparency

Makes any special interest openly visible

Choose to act on behalf of a passive role (individual)

or an active role (specialists)

All citizens can participate

Specialists can have varying levels of decision power

depending on reputation

Specialists Reputation System

Votes made by individuals are private

Individual Privacy

Formal deliberative decisions are public

Accountability

NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM CONCERNS & POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

What if the online platform got hacked?

There are ways of preventions, two step login verification, for example.

Paper ballots is still possible, but with the voting frequency increases, numbers of physical voting locations will be lowered.

What if some citizens prefer paper ballots for voting?

Our political system can be transformed by rewiring it with the tools that technology affords us now.

WITH NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM, WE ARE MAKING DECISIONS TOGETHER WITH THOSE

WHO WE WERE AFFECTING DIRECTLY BY THOSE DECISIONS.

TECHNOLOGY

POLITICSThank you for watching.