The Peoples Bank
{"type": "project", "title": "The Peoples Bank", "website": "https://github.com/rdixit/The-Peoples-Bank", "bannerImg": "bafkreignkc7jwi5wgzt2jodrei2wfjbswgy3ppol5hk5ozozmukk2zfuaq", "createdAt": 1721253540595, "userGithub": "rdixit", "credentials": {}, "description": "We propose building a software stack that any Zuzalu community can use to democratically vote on how to spend collective funds. \n\nWe will start with governing the Vitalia Community funds from the Zuzalu Q1 round.\n\nWe plan to take inspiration from our friends and collaborators at Consider.it (https://consider.it), a visual voting UX that has been used in local governments like Seattle, as well as Liquid US (https://liquid.us), a liquid democracy voting software used by state governments in the U.S.\n\nThis will entail a UX that is easily accessible on mobile and desktop platforms, and a way to easily see things like: total community funds available, project proposals, and spent funds. Polling tools like Consider.it allow us to build a robust discussion layer on top of basic voting functionalities, and allow debate to occur without devolving into a shouting match of the loudest opinions.\n\nFinally, liquid democracy and proxying functionality will allow higher participation rates from the community, even in cases where a member may not have full knowledge or feel qualified to vote on any given issue. It does this by allowing you to proxy your vote to someone else in the community, who can then vote on your behalf. This simple proxying mechanism, while straightforward in smaller communities, can become increasingly helpful to self-organize complexity of democratic structures at scale.\n\nWe have a vision of using this technology to eventually facilitate meaningful global democratic governance beyond our Zuzalu communities.\n\nWe are able to reach 5 million people through the partnerships described in our Roadmap, as the next phase of this project. \n\nOur goal is to create something useful for Zuzalu that has a chance of providing accessible, democratic voting on shared resources for the world’s global citizens.", "bannerImgData": {}}