Games for Change (G4C; [www.gamesforchange.org]) provides support, visibility and shared resources to organizations and individuals producing/using digital games for social change.

I asked them to consider the feasibility of producing a computer game that would simulate DD - see the box below. Here this challenge is also presented to anybody else in the digital games business.

To: G4C

I suggest that a game promoting an increased participation of all citizens in decision-making concerning their lives would be very beneficial for the advancement of democracy. It could be used to educate children so that they can get used to a new way of thinking necessary for a successful truly democratic society.
Ideally, such a game should teach participants how to make wise decision - "citizens" should be able to learn about the consequences of bad decisions they made previously.
Could a collective game (an Internet game?; by it's nature it should most probably be played by a group of people) be devised that would incorporate at least some of the features suggested in the following proposals/posts:

1. How a democracy could function without politicians (implementing an initiative and proposal queue): [democracy.mkolar.org]

2. Non-adversarial decision-making by consent (consensus): [democracy.mkolar.org], [www.sociocracy.biz]
(See also: [www.world-wide-democracy.net])

3. No minimum participation requirement in any vote:

"At present a few hundred people (members of parliament) in every country make all decisions on all issues and are supposed to be experts on all issues. They are not! They have to rely on various advisers, and most probably very often they simply make the laws not in such a way as to accommodate the interests of all the citizens as best as possible, but only the interests of their social group and of those people/groups that are able to buy access to them. This is not a democracy.
So the important thing is that EVERYBODY has a right to voice one's opinion and participate in decision making (voting) on all issues at all times. Not everybody will be able to use this right at all times, simply because people have to live their lives, are sometimes fully absorbed in their work or personal problems. And people have different priorities in different stages of their lives. But I believe that at any given moment there will be many more people in a given community/country that is the number of their present legislators, who will take time to research a particular issue (because they are directly affected by it, it is their hobby, passion, profession, they are experts on this issue, ...), and be able to make a qualified decision on it. A decision make in such a way must be on average much better than that made by the present parliamentarians.
Consequently, there should be no minimum participation requirement on any vote (referendum) in such a system in which everybody can vote on everything.
This is the system we should definitely strive for - the final goal of the DD movement." (a comment on [www.world-wide-democracy.net])

What do your think about the feasibility to produce such a game?

Miroslav Kolar