One of the ideas that I read up on back in the day was all about transparent, open and public politics.
After a few years of dwelling on it, trying to make heads and tails of it in the world that we live in, I finally filed it away in the HDD on my shoulders and said to myself "Can't be done with the way things work in this world".
Now, after discovering CRYPTO and how the blockchain works, I have pulled out this dusty file folder and started reading through all the materials again.
Transparent, Open and Public (TOP) Politics
Can it be achieved within the realm of the world wide web, within the opportunities that are now available with CRYPTO and the blockchain technology?
Rather than go into a thesis about all this, I am still sticking to my guns as far as real life goes and am a firm believer of the following:
"ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS"
So, what then does the idea of TOP Politics encompass as far as actions go?
This would be the practical approach to discussing this notion.
I have dug up some texts from back in the day and this is what defines TOP Politics through actions:
1.0. Transparent Open Public Action
The categories of transparent, open and public action are interconnected i.e. it's not an exclusive classification. Still, they supplement each other since none of them embraces the whole field needed by this idea.
1.1. Transparent Action
Transparent action is action which is transparent to its participants, i.e. intelligible, clear and understandable.
If a person, organization or option wants to act transparent it has to ensure full transparency of its action. This includes publishing, explaining and documenting appropriate documents of its vision, mission and goal statements of action including plans and strategies on how to accomplish them. This documents also include discussion templates, results, conclusions etc. The main goal of transparent action is a elaborated, total and integral decision making process? transparent and available to the public.
A person, organization or option should have a public forum where the public can comment the persons, organizations or options action. This forum must have a fully non censored public part which is continuously and in a line on-line available. Information on this forum should be public according to the definition in this document and allways available for later references.
1.2. Open Action
Open action is such action on which the public has influence i.e. action which can be changed by the public under the condition that the result of such a change is open again. Open action gives every person, option or organization the opportunity of process involvement. If some person, option or organization wants to act open, it has to insure continuous contact and discussion with the public. This is in accordance with the concept of a forum where the public has the opportunity to discus and where every single individual is involved through a clearly distinguishable criteria. Every document created through transparent and public action is thus openstanding. Every person, option or organization should take every meaningful critique, suggestion, comment and idea of the public, discus it and, if they find it usefull, include it an the appropriate document.
1.3 Public Action
Public action is such action which is available to the public, allways and at will and which is oriented to the public. If a person, option or organization wants to act public it has to insure continuous public availability of information about their action.
Public available information is information which is publicly available in a clearly articulated form. This information should be available to everyone interested in it over the Internet. This information can be available through other mediae but the Internet is obligatory. Any official action should be documented in the appropriate document.
Conclusion
A person, option or organization is TOP and can thus become known to the public as such? if its action is transparent, open and public according to the above listed criteria and has an elaborated integral decision making process.
So, after reading this, I still pose the question from the beginning of my post:
CAN IT BE DONE?