Sovereign

A token based liquid democracy software.

Read our 📃 open source white paper.

See our 🇫🇷 Paris 2016 conference presentation.

Features:

• Liquid democracy toolkit:
  • Voting & delegation of votes.
  • Ballots with multiple options.
  • Bottom-up system of proposals.
• Transaction engine based on voting tokens (currently blockchain agnostic).
• Mobile & desktop responsive UX.
• Decentralized identity key management 🔗 with Blockstack.

Roadmap:

• Satoshi-based governance 🔗 with Lightning.
• Institutional incorporation via smart contracts 🔗 with Open Zeppelin.
• Bitcoin integration for budgeting 🔗 with Bcoin.
• Distributed resource storage 🔗 with IPFS.
• Native desktop client 🔗 with Electron.

Release:

version 1.0.4-alpha

Also:

Inspired by the 📃 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

Built for personal sovereignty ✊.

Setup

0. Install Framework

   On Linux & MacOS, load a terminal and type:

   $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

   This will setup Meteor (including Node and Mongo if necessary).

   Note: Windows users must download installer.

1. Clone Repository

   $ git clone https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/sovereign.git
   $ cd sovereign

2. Install Dependencies

   if you have npm installed, type:

   $ npm install

   if you only have meteor, type:

   $ meteor npm install

3. Run App

   While in repository directory type:

   $ meteor npm run start:dev

   Load browser and go to http://localhost:3000/ 🔥

   Note: For production deploys you should use:
   $ meteor npm run start check production/settings.json file to config your keys.

4. Start a Revolution

   Persuade members of any organization you belong to try sovereign governance. Tell us about it so we can learn from the experience and improve our work.

   Note: To begin a movement check our paper How to start a Net Party.

   🕊

Live

• 🌎 Democracy Earth Foundation: vote.democracy.earth.

Reports

• 🇨🇴 Report on 2016 Colombia Referendum.
• 🗺 OECD Report on Blockchain Voting for Peace.

Specifications

• Built on Meteor version 1.5.0
• Designed with Webflow.

Check our documentation for technical reference.

Supported Browsers:

IE / Edge	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	iOS Safari	Chrome for Android
IE10, IE11, Edge	last 2 versions	last 4 versions	last 4 versions	last 4 versions	last 4 versions

Contribute

Sovereign is a free & open source project.

Check our contributors list.

If you want to collaborate with pull requests (features, fixes, issues, projects), please follow our contributing guidelines.

Available tasks in the to do list to join.

Also you can find our projects and tasks in the project area.

Backers:

Join our Open Collective:

Support our work with Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies:

• BTC Address: 1BtQMS7snrisEFMB1fMecXPyeHwwcWnpGE
• ETH Address: 0xE3670E862850D58E0af745d06021c1c0555235dF

About

Democracy Earth Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 not for profit corporation in San Francisco, California 🌎 with no political affiliations of any kind. Our partners include:

Also check our donors list.

License

This software is under an MIT License. Some rights reserved, 2015 - 2018 Democracy Earth Foundation.