The Most Important things in the world – a work in progress.
There are so many things that we all should be focusing on to improve or fix as individuals, groups or governments. What are the most important? Can they be ordered sensibly? Would ordering them assist or encourage people to engage in activities to address the top few. Is ordering by volume of votes useful or does “expert” opinion need to be factored into this (or both)?
Some important things, in no formulated order, are:
- Human impact on the biosphere. Can there be any planning for progress in a world that will be dominated by Climate Change?
- Massive and increasing economic imbalance. Poverty is a constructed condition.
- Access to water. Lack of clean fresh water available to hundreds of millions of people, mostly in African countries
- Child abuse. damaging the young is unconscionable and very expensive to remedy.
- Illegal drug trade. Destroys lives and maintains crime.
- Parenting skills. Caring for children is more difficult with modern, disconnected communities.
- Education. again, critical for the basis of all progressive sustained modern society.
Friends Darren and Jayne and Lucie
Paul Boldra
ok so a bit more on evoting. There are many conflicts currently in place that a directly related to dispute over the result or legitimacy of the local vote.
the voting system created by bismark can reduce or eliminate these conflicts and save lives.
it would require the support of a UN or similar international organisation and I think there would be a good argument for having the technology and expertise centralised to some limited degree. When a country had a vote the UN could bring in the scanners and shredders to run this system and then move them on to the next country. The scanned votes can be copied centrally and accessed internationally. locally the UN or similar could provide the access points for people to verify their own votes were registered.
One possible flaw in this system is that people could record their vote on the booth privately and then “sell” or justify their compromised vote for whatever reason (threat/money or whatever). “open”voting booth design could be used where the marking of the ballot is obscured but the voter can be observed (from the elbow or upper arm upwards).
i just hope this system can be implemented everywhere and eliminate one avoidable reason for people to live in fear of their lives and freedoms.
http://evoting.bismark.se/ verifiable voting! brilliant.