Scott Heiferman at Personal Democracy Forum Europe

(competing with pepsi)

What word do we see a LOT?

let’s develop something cool together

Lets start supporting each other and helping each other

let’s help each other out

let’s connect for a better future

let’s make a movie

let’s clean up the beach

let’s talk MS

let’s beat cancer

let’s jump out of a perfectly good airplane

let’s go green

Local Exchange Transaction System

This is what happens when people self-organize

Use the internet to get off the internet

Babysitting, Cheryl, DIH

Tapping the “cognitive surplus” & the hunger for community, connection, belief, belonging

de-personalized super-industrialized over-anonymized lonely, hurting, feeling powerless and/or broke

waiting for a way to be powerful together

LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL

REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY REAL COMMUNITY

LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S LET’S

everything’s being re-invented, by the people, self-organized

BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH DEMOCRACY?

Tom Steinberg said to connect the fisherpeople

What if the U.S. SBA connected SB people locally to support each other?

Re-imagine Gov as a platform for Connecting People

THIS IS NOT WHAT THE MAYOR OF BARCELONA WAS TALKING ABOUT

P2P = infinite scale & potential

P2P = gov’t saving $$$

de Tocqueville: "In democratic countries, the knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge"

@heif: "in the 21st century, the technology for how to combine is the mother of all awesomeness"

WHAT’S GOING ON HERE: Organizing the World’s Info isn’t the only important mission

Information isn’t everything

Transparency isn’t enough

INFORMATION NEEDS ACTION

YOUR RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH & INFORMATION AREN’T YOUR ONLY POWERFUL HUMAN RIGHTS!

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union ARTICLE 12 FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND OF ASSOCIATION Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association at all levels

The World’s People, Self-Organized

we have more power than ever to unleash collaboration & collective action

organizing isn't just to act against

"participation means lending your hands, not just your voices"

GOT FANS & FOLLOWERS?

FANS & FOLLOWERS ARE WASTED

GET THEM TO SELF- ORGANIZE

MOBILIZE THEM

MOBILIZE THEM TO HELP THEMSELVES

GIVE THEM PERMISSION TO KICK ASS

DISTRIBUTE RESPONSIBILITY NOT JUST INFO OR TASKS

THIS IS ABOUT *DURABLE* MOVEMENTS

Would you help organize a PDF Community in your town?

SEE LEADERS EMERGE

WATCH PEOPLE BE POWERFUL

scott@meetup.com @heif We’re hiring engineers in NYC

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Scott Heiferman at Personal Democracy Forum Europe

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