Fordem is a digital democracy and socio-political mobilisation platform, with various social functions built to facilitate participation, community-buidling and organisation.
Who is behind the project?
We are based at the tech department of Transnational Community Federation e. V., a member-funded non-profit civic innotavation lab.
Fordem is a member of Vernetzung Bürger:Innenbeteiligung in Germany and an active member of Iranian Woman Life Freedom movement.
Fordem short-term goals:
Fordem is a tool for development of any community as it can be adapted to the respective needs and contexts. In our first version we aim to assist Iranian political activists in networking, deliberation and participation stages of their mobilisation along the ongoing Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
Furthermore, we are invested in implementing Fordem in communities in Germany suffering from a democratic gap. Our main forcus ther is Heilbronn, a city with more than 54% of the population with migratory background but only 5% of the seats in the municipal council.
Our long-term goal is to adapt Fordem for various democratic needs of every community around the world and to connect these communities to an interconnected and transnationally aware whole.
How are we going to do that?
Fordem is an open-source platform, it is developed in direct collaboration with the civil society, has a crypto economy that gives back to the users if any profit is generated e.g. when news agencies pay to use the survey results (yes, it's not free for those!), provides the users with community building and organisation tools, and is hosted and managed by a non-profit federation.
Activists will have the possibility to: (Diaspora in case of Iran)
- Identify themselves through a pseudonymisation process done by a trusted 3rd parties
- Create and interactively flesh out their multifaceted profiles
- Connect with like-minded people and groups
- Organise events and meetings
- Collaboratively ideate
- Utilise various socials functions to find the social choice
- Find and form representative groups for more elaborate democratic processes e.g. deliberation
Data
Everything is treated according to the GDPR. We do not store or keep PII without users' explicit request.
Furthermore the Data generated by the users will in part go on chain using smart contracts, or stored on a federated system. That said, using different licensing techniques we ensure for-profit organisations pay for their usage of the output and the profit goes back to users who generated the value as well as to the further development of the platform to reflect the users' needs.
We actively look for developers, members of board of trustess and external auditors in general.
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Organisation & Component Overview (فارسی):
UI Design (WIP)