civ.works: a powerful, private social platform for civic engagement

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civ.works engage excite empower

Executive Summary:

We are building a powerful,

privacy-protected social platform

for civic engagement.

Opportunity:

A significant opportunity exists today

that encompasses a vast demographic.

Our social platform will potentially

address millions of social network (ie.-

Facebook) users who do not want their

profile or site interaction data sold to

marketers or others that use big data

analytics to harm society.

Social Media

Users with

Privacy

Concerns

Frustrated

Citizens

Issue-

based

Advocates

With an easy to use, visually-compelling,

privacy-protected social network at the core

-we will be integrating components that will

allow people to evolve beyond the use of

electronic petitions to creating law, policy,

voting, political activism, economic activism

and participatory budgeting.

We will aggregate actions to help avoid

action fatigue/self-disengagement.

Actions will be presented to subscribers on

the basis of issue affinity and locality.

And we do not sell or provide individual

subscriber profile or activity data without a

subscriber’s consent. It is private by default.

The civ.works Solution:

The civ.works community will include

people that are presently frustrated by

constant changes in privacy settings

for existing social platforms, activists

that create or respond to electronic

petitions and all those seeking

economic and political empowerment.

Audience:

We will sustain a small core

civ.works team and fund our

operating, development and

research expenses based upon a

small recurring subscription fee

($3.99/month).

The platform will be free for the

academic community

(.edu domains)

Viability:

Paid monthly

subscribers

civ.works is a project of the 501(c)3 Civic Works, a non-profit

organization.

Start with core early adopters and donors.

Platform is “invite-only” to control initial compute

growth needs and trolls.

Use invitation demand, referrals, earned media

and social media to achieve subscriber mass and

scale.

At launch we will also be providing “cross-posting”

capability. Subscribers can update their status

and easily automatically deliver their updates to

Facebook and/or Twitter (if they choose).

Adoption Strategy:

Founding Team:

Golda Velez, Chief

Architect

You don't have to be a rocket

scientist but it helps. Golda began

software engineering at Jet

Propulsion Laboratory while

completing her academic study at

Caltech in Mathematics. She has

since worked for Factual, Oracle

and others major enterprises and

start-ups directing complex projects,

programs and teams.

Adam Lake,

Network/Outreach

Adam has been working on issues

related to civic cooperation,

empowerment and engagement since

emerging from Virginia Tech. He is a

disruptor of the conventional and his

concepts, ideas and vision continue to

shape the civ.works concept.

George A. Polisner, Founder

George has spent the last several years of

addressing highly-complex conceptual

technological and economic challenges for

government, large enterprise and society.

He remains active and engaged in socio-

economic and environmental justice,

participatory democracy and budgeting,

transparency and accountability in

governance and he has significant

experience in corporate social behavior

(CSR) and addressing externalities.

Advisory Board:

Suzanne Stenson O’Brien

Suzanne is a seasoned collaboration and

communications professional. Major

campaign responsibilities include National

Voice’s NOV2 campaign, the Eat Well

Guide, Oscar-nominated film THE MOST

DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA about

whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, THE SONIC

MEMORIAL, and many other documentary

projects on film, the web, and broadcast

media. She currently teaches writing at the

University of Wisconsin - Stout.

Alpesh Patel

Alpesh holds a Masters of Engineering

degree and works in the biotechnology

industry. He has long been an

advocate for peace, justice and human

rights and is currently also on the

Board of National Peace Action

Erica Fuller

Erica was elected as National Program

Director for the College Democrats of

America and is deeply involved in

issues of inequality, gender

inequality, nationwide sexual assault

within minority communities and

mental health programs.

Allan Garten

Allan is a retired federal prosecutor. He went to work

for the Oregon U.S. Attorney's Office in 1995 and

prior to retirement in 2016 spent the last 20 years

focused on fraud and white collar crime.

Lavar Youmans Lavar holds a Masters of Social Work from Howard

University with a focus in Policy, Research, and

Community Organizing. In 2011 he worked as a

research fellow in the Executive Office of the

President of the United States, White House Office of

the National Drug Control Policy, Office of Demand

Reduction.

Lavar also served as a Field Organizer for

Organizing for America.

The civ.works Platform:

Single Sign On, Privacy-protected, Invite Only civ.works platform

Social Launches Now (Feb 14)

Action 3/31 or sooner

Activism Engine Integration

Civic Dashboard 4/30 release

Consensus 6/30 or sooner

Loomio or Democracy OS

Civic Dashboard:

User Civic Action Dashboard

(We will encourage engagement

through gamification/competition)

● Participation Trends

● Content Shared

● Votes/Polling

● Divestment/Purchases

● Consensus Building

● Education/Information

“You have 6 active

campaigns”

“You have voted 27

times this week”

“You have 12 new

group members in

your campaign”

“Karli J. posted a photo of

you : ‘Love this pic from

the SpeakOut event on

Saturday!’”

“You have 3 new

event invitations”

Standard Social Newsfeed:

The integration of

aggregated actions based

upon subscriber status

updates, user location and

issue affinity.

Can anyone tell me how to get an initiative on the

ballot in Massachusetts?

Here’s the latest article on restrictive voter ID laws from

Public Citizen. www.pubcit.com/voterID

Any other moms out there who are interested in

meeting up about the new traffic laws in Dover?

Rally tonight at Gerald Park for our Firefighters!

Come and show your support at 7pm!

Click here to learn about the ballot initiative

process in Massachusetts

6 friends are attending

Add to your events

Consensus:

Consensus We will leverage/integrate existing platforms

like loomio or Democracy OS. These

applications will allow the civ.works community

to share information and debate on important

public policies, and then vote on the issues they

care about –subsequently codifying the results

in Actions.

How Does it Work? Representatives and local law-makers can

connect directly to voters to get your input on

important matters. This allows our law-makers

to make our government more representational

and allows your voice to be heard. And when

dealing with a legislative body that is

uncooperative –providing alternative citizen-

initiated solutions and actions.

Sample of Democracy OS Online Demo / Taken from democracyos.org

By connecting civ.works with Democracy OS,

users can have a seamless 360 degree view of

their civic engagement. Focus on outcome-

based consensus building to move beyond

political ideological entrenchment of today.

Economic Activism

What is Economic Activism? Provide ratings on corporations based upon

their “CSR” information. Help educate and

inform consumers and investors about shifting

their investments and/or purchases to

companies (like CREDO) that are balancing

growth with sustainability.

The civ.works database Identify, acquire, aggregate and normalize

attributed, trusted data about environmental,

governance, fair labor, diversity, executive pay

ratio and supply chain compliance –and render

an easy to understand grade. Educate and

inform the community on the significance of a

collective economic impact. Ie- “Costco vs

Walmart” or “CREDO vs Verizon”.

Participatory Budgeting:

Planned for future

release

What is Participatory Budgeting? Participatory budgeting invites citizens to have

a say in how your local government or other

organizations allocate spending.

How Does it Work? Local governments and organizations set aside

a certain amount of funds and allow citizens to

vote on how those funds are used. Participatory

budgeting is being used in over 1500 cities

worldwide, and is being used by New York City

Council and Toronto’s Public Housing Authority.

civ.works: the platform

for civic engagment

civ.works is coming.

February 14, 2017