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AN ADVANCED PLATFORM TO ENABLE COMMUNITY SELF-GOVERNANCE
SELF GOVERNANCE is a way for any group of individuals (communities, companies, organizations, even countries) to retain all power across the entire membership base instead of giving irrevocable and disproportionate control to a handful of elected individuals.


Before After
Low engagement amongst members who feel they don't have the time, skills or expertise to get involved Everyone's voice included in decisions, without big investment of time, money or parliamentary know-how
Before After
The election process favors proximity to capital and connections while parliamentary procedure puts even more distance between power and the lay person. Entrenched power prevails while diversity is marginalized. No amount of money or connections delivers anyone a disproportionate voice in the decisions. Takes just 5 minutes to learn how it works; can toss the 700 page "Robert's Rules of Order" and all its gamesmanship.
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Mistrust from opacity of the process, conflicts of interest and the far distance most members are from the actual decisions You ARE the leadership with as much say as anyone else - any time of year. No more "they" to blame
Before After
Expensive, time-consuming and contentious elections which require money from special interests who get favors in return Replace ELECTIONS with SELECTIONS. A flexible delegatory system where any member can represent others on a topic they have expertise on
Before After
A tiny class of full-time politicians who seize power and hold on tight, influenced by donors and lobbyists, increasingly out-of-sync with members Volunteers (who don't answer to donors) offer a narrow sliver of time to help only in their topics of expertise. Constituent-to-Rep count capped to limit any one person's influence
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How it Works

Communities can work together to solve problems without a tops-down structure.

Read our FAQs to learn more.

Step 1. Delegate

Set your preferences and beliefs and choose like-minded members to delegate as your proxy for each topic area. Or you can leave it blank and participate directly.

Step 2. Ideate

Each monthly session members propose ideas. The ones with the most votes move on to the proposal phase.

Step 3. Decide

In the proposal phase, the ideas get turned into details. The community votes the proposals up or down. Everyone's preferences ("step 1") get counted in the votes, whether they voted directly or through their proxy.

Communities

A community with dues, donations or dividends is a good fit for this style of governance.

Use deegov for certains areas of community life - or for everything.

It scales whether your community has 100 members or 1 million.


  • HOAs and Co-ops
  • All homeowners care about the decisions of the HOA. But in the traditional governance model, many busy working people and parents cannot put the required time in to make their voice count. That's where deegov comes in to give each homeowner a voice no matter how much time they have to commit.

  • Non-Profits, Social & Religious Organizations
  • Whether you contribute $10/mo or $10K a year, you want to be able have some voice in how your contributions get spent. There is a Board and Management team but you may understand the problem the non-profit is addressing in a way that they don't. Do you have a mechanism today to propose ideas and turn them into action? With deegov every member has the opportunity to contribute their ideas, not just their money.

  • Workers Unions
  • Workers unions face internal challenges such as factionalism, lack of participation from members, and ineffective leadership. These challenges can undermine the power and effectiveness of the union and lead to decreased membership and influence. Deegov changes the game and gets unions back on track focused on their mission.

Other communities that can benefit:

workers unions, professional organizations, school boards, undergraduate or graduate student unions, parent teacher associations (PTAs), educational foundations, coops, charitable organizations, NGOs, online social platforms

What's our mission?

Our goal is to further develop and evolve a digital platform to help communities self-govern.

The deegov fluid delegation system can produce greater community cohesion and less strife, higher levels of trust in bylaws and fiscal policies, increase in productive dialogue and consensus, increase in domain expertise in decision-making, more diverse representation, increase in perceptions of transparency and decrease in perception of bias and corruption.

Would you take the power if you had it?

Being part of any community means having to compromise. But all too often, members feel excluded from the decision-making process. Oftentimes it takes too much dedicated time and effort to get involved to the point where your voice can be heard. Sometimes members are excluded from the decision-making process for other reasons: bias, structural power grabs or because they seek to avoid personality conflicts.

What are your goals?

We'd love to hear the goals you have for your community. Our pilot program is designed to:

  • Establish baseline metrics       How does your community measure up against the goals you have for it? That's the first step in piloting deegov.
  • Guidance & Education       We will work with the community organizers to setup your deegov structure to meet your succss measures. Some training and education sessions will facilitate adoption and get everyone aligned on how deegov can help.
  • Measure the change       After working with deegov for a couple of quarters, we will collect the same measurements as prior to the pilot and work with you to see which goals are seeing the most progress. We can then fine-tune your community space to accelerate the pace of meeting your community objectives.

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