Educational Organziation Proposal, new Wiki pages, etc.

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Lee Gottlieb presented at the recent 3rd CICDD and WDDM conference (Prague) a
preliminary proposal to establish a non-profit (educational) organization to
promote DD. Since then he put some more thought into this proposal and it is
now posted for general discussion at http://www.world-wide-democracy.net/eo/

Everybody here apparently agrees on the importance of good education,
acceptance of a "New Manner of Thinking" as prerequisite for the good
functioning of DD. Could we finally made some practical progress in this
direction, e.g., along the lines of Lee's thought? It would be good to address
mainly the young people. Erik, if you are still with us, do you have any ideas
how to address your peer?

Personally, I am slowly trying to proceed toward the goal of making this site
an exchange of DD resources as is stated in our current Mission. For your
convenience, I copy here where we ended up the the development of our Mission
Statement:
> > WDDMnet is a worldwide hub for the advocates of Direct Democracy (DD) to
exchange information, experience and ideas from different parts of the world.
Individuals are encouraged to join, or form, sub-groups in their own countries.
Our goal is to develop a multilingual Globe-covering network of DD web sites
linked to this site.<<
(I hope that George Kokkas will soon be able to take over the role of the
moderator and to try to revive the effort on putting up some minimal WDDM
structure which he started at the Prague conference.)

So I have tried to tidy up the Wiki a little bit, renamed "Projects" to
"Topics, Activities, Projects", and grouped them together somewhat to create a
tree-like structure of Wiki pages. Have a look.
For example, all work/links of DD (citizens) constitutions is linked to one
item (DD constitutions) in the main "Topics, Activities, Projects".
I also started a topic "Voting systems, methods, theory".
All this is still far from complete, so please do contribute the missing links.

On the main Wiki page (WikiRoot) there is a link to D2 Discussion Zone
(http://d2dz.stevemagruder.com/) which Steve Magruder rather recently put back
online. He encourages us to use it: "Yes, please do use the D2/DZ for any
discussion related to direct democracy or enhancing democracy in general. In
fact, I've been considering making the board global in perspective (removing
the U.S.-centric language). Everyone is welcome." It is possible to have polls
there. And it could be used for DD discussions only marginally related to our
Mission.

All the best,
Mirek