Impact
Our programs translate Article 3 of the Articles of Association into public, auditable lines of work. Nothing here is proprietary to the Association — research, code, curriculum, and policy are all open.
Field-independent study of direct-democracy mechanisms. We publish open working papers on signature thresholds, quorum rules, sortition, deliberative processes, and verifiable ballots. Research outputs are peer-reviewable and freely citable.
The Association develops and governs the reference implementation of the Federation platform. Code is permissively licensed, reproducibly built, and self-hostable. Per Art. 3, the Association may allocate grants for liquidity bootstrapping, research, and related development.
Training materials, facilitator guides, and community-led workshops for teaching direct-democratic practice — from municipal councils to global coordination. Curricula are multilingual and pedagogically open.
Strictly non-partisan, non-denominational advocacy for procedural rights: privacy of the ballot, freedom of political expression, and the equal weight of every vote. We brief policymakers and contribute to open standards.
Theory of Change
We believe procedural infrastructure is upstream of political outcomes. Improve the process, and legitimacy follows.
Gather evidence from live direct-democracy systems (Switzerland, Taiwan's vTaiwan, citizen assemblies) and publish comparative findings.
Translate research into reference implementations that communities can adopt, fork, or audit — lowering the cost of adopting better process.
Support municipalities, universities, and civic orgs in piloting the tools; feed learnings back into research. Recurse.
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