CITIZN

Democracy is retreating across the planet Just like climate change, we are now seeing serious risk building in democracies. This represents both a risk we cannot tolerate and an opportunity if we seize the moment. Though democracy is in retreat we can save it, and not just save it, rather protect it for all time. When democracy retreats human rights abuses soon follow. Across the world we are seeing abuses of power by formerly democratic countries. Even the supposed great Democracies of th... e world are in peril. According the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, which is considered the standard by which democracy's are measured, democracy is in full retreat around the world. Worst of all some democracies are disappearing altogether. This is not an unimportant over there event. It is happening here too. Ever since the enlightenment we have seen the expansion of rights across the globe. The recent emancipation movements of BIPOC, female, and LGBT communities is just the latest expression of that enlightenment, long may it be so. Throughout history the world was threatened with the retreat of democracy but we always fought back and built back better! Everytime. This time will be no different. CITIZN is how we do it! Democracy runs on politics, Politics runs on....DATA To build data sources and deliver them to government, people and companies spend over $80 billion USD per year in the US alone. These sums are generally spent by corporations that do not care one bit about what you want. CITIZN changes that. This is your data, controlled by the people and built for the people, that expresses your views, and the views of every other citizen in your country. Every decision, every policy, every announcement, every law, and every response from the government is informed by data given to the government by an army of civil servants. Where do they get the data? From loads of different places some better than others. The best data we have today is polling data and bots that look for trends in social or web data.More