Democracy the social networking way!

Makes sense. An official accountability system!

(Expect talks about the ever growing digital divide)

BTW if you're still looking for collaborators I want in on it. Thanks!

Only very important topics would make a sense here. "Change our lane's asphalt" r anything like that won't work, and unfortunately "Pull out of Iraq" doesn't seem to work this days either!

Saj, it would work with ridiculous situations like Grenalow Wilson.

As far as Iraq, one of my fears is actually that it might work, but might backfire resulting in something like a premature pull-out from Iraq, which would be devastating IMHO to the region in the short-term and to everybody in the long-term. Although that's my opinion - if you don't mind, let's not turn this into a political discussion. If you would like to speak about that, let me know on http://nikitab.newsvine.com.

Regardless of what I think on the subject, most people who speak about Iraq can't tell their toes from their elbows. Everybody must have an opinion about everything for some reason: the oil, construction, economy. But you ask them simple questions like "What is the GDP of Iraq?" or "What are the projections for Iraqi oil?" or "What are the main political factions in Iraq and what is the distribution?" and most people just shrug their shoulders. I wrote about that here in several articles: http://nikitab.newsvine.com/iraq

I am hoping that with this system, people who know the subjects will be able to take on causes that would increase transparency and efficiency. For example, let's say an economist takes on a cause and says "According to these numbers, resource allocation should be adjusted in the following way in Iraq in order to improve security because..." And because the economist actually knows what he/she is talking about, they have a chance at getting a considerable following and influencing decisions.

I think the purpose should be to attempt to align socio-economic with political incentives.

Leese, thanks for the support. I created business for this idea.

Apart from the algebra it sounds like an interesting application, especially on the organizational front and also for reaching out to a larger audience.

I didn't mean to discuss politics here NikitaB. I just tried to say that many times what people think is not respected by the politicians. But I know there have been many cases where such impacts have been made.
Even I know a site which was trying to do the same job in another way: http://www.sinceslicebread.com

um didnt I just read this... oh well.... Facebook dose this

Goda_light: this is an idea. The other was started as a business. My apologies if I botched this up a bit - new to CH.

Patmania: thanks!

Saj: agreed. The link you gave didn't work. Did you mean http://www.sincesliceDbread.com/ ?

Saj: looked at the site - very interesting: thanks for the link.

I think this is really good.

If this hasn't been done it needs to be.

Think maybe I'll join you for this.

NikitaB

Great idea... social network to validate causes using certified real people.

I love it!

I like this idea. IT could be set up for local to provincial/state to federal representatives. Organise the masses.

Also, I think I know an organization that could provide seed funding. Let me see if I can get a hold of them.

Maybe this couldbe tied in with the world peace project:

http://www.cambrianh...ter/ideas-id/XoxMRf9

Anathema,

I looked at the WP project... uhm... may be I am missing something, but the danger in something like that (and applied to Social Petition) is that there will be a large number of naive people who don't have a clue pushing for something that they are unable (or uninterested in) calculating consequences. The reality is extremely complex and brutal and most people don't care enough to research and understand. SocialPetition will need to safeguard against public idiocy as mob mentality is probably the most dangerous and devastating element of our time... Thanks for bringing up this concern.

so how would u make money?

I like the idea

Seem similar in direct with own of my ideas...
Maybe would could talk more about are ideas and see where it takes us.

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i thought this was online with Rizal's Peace community?
My forum 201 can be a flatform too on the pulse survey analysis on certain issue...

check it out!