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1. HOW
NEW POWER
TRANSFORMS
DEMOCRACY
Presenter:
Philip Kuo &
Joanne Doong

2. WHAT IS NEW POWER
In the last 20 years,
there has been a fundamental shift in the balance of power in the world.
New power is the deployment of mass participation and peer coordination to
create change and shift outcomes.
Enabled by modern platforms
OLD POWER NEW POWER

3. OLD POWER VS. NEW POWER
Old Power
Like Currency
Held by few
Leader-driven
Closed
Professionalization
New Power
Like Current
Made by many
Peer-driven
Open
Participation
SHIFTS TOWARD
INCREASING TRANSPARENCY

4. EXAMPLES OF NEW POWER
Kickstarter
raised over a billion dollars on projects from 5 million+ people
Airbnb
anyone can run a hotel,
disrupted hotel industry without owning a square foot of real estate
Uber
highly scalable sharing economy platform
EXAMPLE OF OLD POWER
Apple
perfection as governing ideology, only hire the best workers

5. NEW POWER IS SIGNIFICANT
“Once you have an experience of new power,
you tend to expect and want more of it.”
NEW POWER TRANSFORMED BUSINESSES,
IT CAN TRANSFORM POLITICS, TOO.
People feel more powerful with new power,
it will be able to change the way we relate to
authority and institutions.
Politics can benefit a lot from
mass participation and peer coordination,
with the power of internet,
it is now possible to transform politics.

6. POLITICS, THEN AND NOW
Old Times
In Athens,
citizens came together to discuss issues
and create policy solutions.
(Direct Democracy)
We can choose our authorities,
but we are completely left out on how those authorities reach their decisions.
Now
Language of government is cryptic,
people feel that they don’t have
the adequate expert knowledge to
contribute to political sphere, only
politicians get to decide on issues.
(Indirect Democracy)

7. Political system remains the same for the past 200 years
and expects us to be contented with being passive recipients.
Even if they do not want to become full time politicians,
every citizen should be given a vote for every issue.
BUT ANY CITIZEN SHOULD
HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THEIR VOICE BE HEARD
IN THE POLICY MAKING PROCESS.

8. Luckily, it’s possible with New Power.
Political action is being able to move from
agitation construction
NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM
DIRECT DEMOCRACY + INDIRECT DEMOCRACY + THE POWER OF INTERNET + CITIZENS PARTICIPATION / COLLABORATION
NEW POWER

9. WHAT IS
NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM
It is about persuading and being persuaded.
It is about reaching a consensus.
Instead of on a hill in Athens, we may meet in cyberspace.
This made citizens participation possible once again.
A ONLINE DELEGATED VOTING SYSTEM
THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT
THE KNOWLEDGE DISPARITY OF ITS PARTICIPANTS.

10. With easy-to-access New Power Democracy System,
Everyone will have equal opportunity to discuss on issues.
Citizen
Specialists
Politician
Online Forum

11. Everyone are given a vote for every issue on the table.
POLICY
/
Citizen Issue Yes/No

12. Citizen may also choose to delegate their vote to another person,
whom they trust to make an informed decision in their place, for example.
POLICY
/
Citizen Issue Yes/NoSpecialists
POLICY
/
Citizen Issue Yes/NoSpecialists
They can also delegate those collected votes further on to yet somebody else,
a politician who stands for a certain world view, for example.
Politician
Citizens may also take back their vote from others anytime.

13. WHEN TECHNOLOGY
MEETS POLITICS,
IT ALLOWS FOR A MORE
DYNAMIC AND EMERGING
SOCIAL LEADERSHIP.
- Philip Kuo & Joanne Doong

14. NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM
FEATURES
Transparency
Makes any special interest
openly visible
Choose to act on behalf of
a passive role (individual)
or an active role (specialists)
All citizens can participate
Specialists can have
varying levels of decision power
depending on reputation
Specialists Reputation System
Votes made by individuals
are private
Individual Privacy
Formal deliberative decisions
are public
Accountability

15. NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM
CONCERNS & POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
What if the online platform got hacked?
There are ways of preventions, two step login verification, for example.
Paper ballots is still possible, but with the voting frequency increases,
numbers of physical voting locations will be lowered.
What if some citizens prefer paper ballots for voting?

16. Our political system can be transformed
by rewiring it with the tools that technology affords us now.
WITH NEW POWER DEMOCRACY SYSTEM,
WE ARE MAKING DECISIONS TOGETHER WITH THOSE
WHO WE WERE AFFECTING DIRECTLY BY THOSE DECISIONS.
TECHNOLOGY
POLITICSThank you for watching.