In the Press

As the FreeGov team continues to push further in development, we've been feeling a good share of "blah" moments of exhaustion but balanced by exciting highs which makes this bumpy road worth it. Two of these highs are FreeGov appearing on Slashdot and Wikinomics. Speechless.

Waking up Friday morning (July 11th) and finding FreeGov on the home page of Slashdot was our (nerd) dream come true. We all feel too fortunate. More importantly, we truly appreciate all of the Slashdot readers for taking the time to ponder the possibility of Free Government and discuss it so openly. Negative, positive, raving, witty comments, we read them all.

Lastly, FreeGov was covered by Wikinomics. Will Dick of Wikinomics hits the nail on the head in describing the FreeGov concept. Quoting Will Dick,

The plan, though, is not pure direct democracy. Those who prefer not to make their own voting decisions can delegate their votes to advisors. These advisors then, become sort of like elected representatives. But there are a few important differences:

• They are never running for election, making their decisions less susceptible to variations in the political cycle.
• Their power is never “locked in.” If they make a bad or corrupt decision, constituents can immediately and retroactively take their power away.
• Those who do not win are still engaged in the process. When a candidate loses an election, we shut this (often) highly qualified person out of government, rather than give them an opportunity to serve their community. A corporate HR department would cringe at such a policy. Free Government’s system allows those less-popular “advisors” to continue to engage in the policy making process.
  
  

Again, thanks to all the believers, skeptics, dreamers, yea-, and nay-sayers. Let's keep up the open discussion and push on toward the ideals (and practice) of Free Government.