Performance-Based System for Electing Better Leaders

This project is about creating a website that would help people elect better leaders. This page can be possibly merge later with Government and Politics.

Problems with the existing Political situation

Everyone is familiar with the problems with politics. Here's a table talking about some problems in today's systems and here are some examples.

• Isolation: The public is isolated from the leaders, with regards to what is happening and the decisions they're taking. Due to this isolation, there's no transparency
• Lack of a Qualification Process: There's no meaningful qualification process for transforming a citizen into a political leader. The things are that involved in this process are: lots of money (example), banners, advertisements, popularity, staff for running the campaign, promises made, public-speaking skills, opinions on existing politics, and promises made. The most important aspect which is a track record of success is not considered. Consequently today people vote for leaders for the wrong reasons because there's no useful information available to them to help them make decisions.

Goals of this Project

• Create software for a performance-based system that helps civilians identify who their best leaders are
• Encourage leaders to work on important initiatives and activities identified by themselves or by the community
• The system should be able to improve existing politics
• It should also be able to create and maintain a new system of leadership that we are trying to develop
• It would help citizens lead their communities at a grassroot level, all the way up to city, state, national and international levels
• This software should work for every location and country in the world

Engagement Levels

As mentioned in the Goals section, people can be involved in leadership at multiple levels. They would have to achieve success at lower levels before they are eligible for participation at higher levels:

• Neighborhood / Zip
• City
• State/Province
• National
• International

This is the simplest part of designing such a system so at least we have that out of the way. Basically we are trying to identify community and political leaders at all levels of society who work with each other and we want to see the same kind of high-quality, skilled, cooperative, transparent and accountable leadership at all levels.

Things that need to be decided

• Expected activities for each level of leadership
• Standards to abide by
• Things to be evaluated on

Main categories of Leadership Activities

• Environment
• Preservation of Earth's Resources (including recycling)
• Consumer protection
• Non-Partisan cooperation - get extra points for working with leaders of parties traditional seen as hostile to any degree (notice that this list doesn't talk about the color of their party, Red, White, Blue, Orange; none of that). If we are going to vote for anyone, lets vote in a more meaningful way which is their success on categories.
• International Cooperation - working cooperatively with leaders of other countries. Extra points for working with leaders from countries currently defined as hostile to any degree (mild to strong)
• Human Rights - extra points for leaders who work on these initiatives in places where Human rights of different kinds need special attention
• Crime Reduction
• Healthcare
• Parenting - improve the way our children are brought up
• Education - What should students of all ages be taught in schools and universities?
• Standardization - unifying systems between city, state, national and international boundaries
• Anti-Corruption
• Anything else?

This list probably needs a lot of granularity and sub-levels. All these categories can be created and maintained by the community.

How to evaluate their Activities

• Level of intensity of activity e.g. Taking initiative and being a leader, or just supporting something from the sidelines (this needs to be differentiated)
• Level of intensity should reflect what the country needs the most. For example its more important to work on human rights where they are a bigger issue. What each country needs the most can be decided and that is what the leaders have to pay attention to
• Specific tasks for leaders to work on. Let people propose and leaders could work on popular proposals. No ownership of proposals, let community work on them collaboratively before a leader starts to work on them. In case there's any existing proposal-generation websites/tools, draw information from those sources or use those tools directly.
• Track all-time performance as well as Recent performance

Fake and low-quality reviews on websites are a common problem as we all know, so how can we create a system that provides reliable and objective ratings? Some ideas:

• Create objective, specific descriptions of activity types
• Have a 'constitution' or a set of standards. For example these things will always strengthen the profile/reputation of a leader: the environment, non-partisan cooperation
• Perhaps make evaluation 'anonymous' e.g. when an activity is evaluated, the evaluator will not know the identify of the leader being evaluated.