The Metaverse Republic grows in numbers


A quick word to welcome all the new members of the teams of the Metaverse Republic. The Constitutional Team has now 7 members, who already started working with us in the last two meetings. The Management Team is about to formalize the recruitment of 5 more members, taking the total number to 8 members, right after the approval of a new structure that will allow us to work more effectively on all the issues that we will need to face until inauguration. We would like to encourage anyone who wants to join us to contact us in-world (IM Ashcroft Burnham for the Constitutional Team, Mondrian Lykin or Michel Manen for the Management Team, and Kristy Laval for the Technical Team). Should you prefer e-mail form, you can e-mail us at info@metaverserepublic.org: one of us will get back to you as soon as possible. If you want to know what we are doing, you can join the Metaverse Republic group on Second Life as an observer, and attend in-world meetings which will be notified with group notices.

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September 13, 2007 at 9:07 pm

Perhaps you folks need to get in touch with the Metagovernment folks: http://www.metagovernment.org

After all, why have a primitive representative democracy in a system in which everyone can participate? It would make a lot more sense to have everyone directly involved in governance as much as they wish to be. That has never been possible before, but only because of technological restraints. It looks like the Metascore system would enable you to do just this sort of thing, though it is still in an early form.

Likewise, it seems like Second Life would be a good venue for the Metagovernment, or at least for parts of it.

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September 14, 2007 at 12:55 am

Thanks for your comment and suggestion! This metagovernment idea is fascinating and very interesting, but it’s radically different from ours and takes off from different grounds. I don’t see much compatibility at this stage. There might be a common ground in the technical side, if they ever get the system implemented in Second Life.

As for your suggestion, is not only the technological restraints that direct democracy doesn’t work in real worlds, unfortunately. It’s not only the relative absence of technical restraints for participation that make the Internet different from real life. :-)