THE DEMOCRACY SOLUTION

and

THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

with

MI-DEMOCRACY.org
and the four apps

I-ELECT (for Elections)

I-VOTE (for Votes)
I-SAY (for Polls)
I-SIGN (for Petitions)

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INFORMATION MEMORANDUM

Expressions of interest are

invited from potential
investors in multi-billion
people democracies of the
world in the 21st century.
Expressions of interest may
be directed to the Four Bros
and Onequity.
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All rights reserved
August 2019

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 THE DEMOCRACY SOLUTION
and

THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

with

MI-DEMOCRACY.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. MI-DEMOCRACY Executive Summary

2. MI-DEMOCRACY Theoretical Basis Summary

3. MI-DEMOCRACY Development Plan Overview

4. MI-DEMOCRACY Implementation and Operations Overview

5. MI-DEMOCRACY Licensee and User Benefits Summary

6. MI-DEMOCRACY Benefits for Democracy Generally

7. MI-DEMOCRACY Examples

APPENDIX - The Meaning of Democracy

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 1 MI-DEMOCRACY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

MI-DEMOCRACY is about the evolution and reform of democracy

needed to peacefully secure more freedoms, equality, safety and
happiness for all the people of the world in the 21st century.
MI-DEMOCRACY is an innovation created by the Four Bros and
Onequity as the current investors and owners of mi-
democracy.org.

MI-DEMOCRACY involves the theoretical and practical development

and operation of four apps, I-ELECT, I-VOTE, I-SAY and I-SIGN.
The four apps are based on the four fundamental democratic
mechanisms used in every society of the world – elections, votes,
polls and petitions. The I-ELECT app is for elections, the I-
VOTE app for votes and referendums (ie. all votes other than
elections), the I-SAY app for responding to polls and the I-
SIGN app for engaging in petitions.

Recent advances in communications technology enable the four

apps to exponentially improve the operations and outcomes of
democratic practices around the world. The MI-DEMOCRACY four
apps will provide more opportunity and greater security for
every person of the world to participate in democratic decision
making for their local, regional, national and global
communities than ever before.

The need to improve global democratic practices is obvious from

community decision-making experiences over the past thousands
of years to the present time. Only now has technology advanced
sufficiently to enable the best democratic theories to be put
into best democratic practice for the benefit of every person
and community of the world, through these four apps.

The four apps will restore faith and trust in democratic

practices. Every person in the world will be able to use the
four apps for their own democratic purposes, and verify their
engagement and participation in these democracies.

MI-DEMOCRACY is evolutionary in the sense that because everyone

in the world is now able to communicate with each other remotely,
the logical next step is to use this ability to improve
participation rates, quantitatively and qualitatively, for
decision-making in all local, regional, national and global
communities. MI-DEMOCRACY facilitates this next step by the
development, implementation and operation of the four apps.

MI-DEMOCRACY is revolutionary because the four apps in operation

will automatically and naturally reform democratic practices all
around the world quantitatively and qualitatively. These
reforms will secure greater freedoms, equality, safety and
happiness for all peoples of the world, through the optimisation
of democratic decision-making using the four apps.

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MI-DEMOCRACY will make available the four apps to every person
in the world who has wi-fi access through a cell phone, tablet
or pc. The four apps reflect those democratic mechanisms which
have been used in various forms and to various degrees in every
community of the world for thousands of years. To further
explain these mechanisms in the MI-DEMOCRACY context:

1. “Elections” pertain to the practical democratic function

of electing personal representatives for community
decision-making. For the sake of practically managing a
community’s affairs, people elect other people to represent
their own and their community’s interests. Candidates who
win a democratically held election are vested with certain
community decision-making powers. The elected candidate
is expected to use those powers as permitted by their
elected position, whether as politicians, community
representatives, councillors, business community leaders,
ngo appointees, board directors, club committee persons,
etc. The I-ELECT app may apply to any election of persons
to any position(s).

2. “Votes” pertain to the practical democratic function of

deciding on any community issue put to a “vote”. Any
community issue may be put to a vote by its constituents,
whether in the form of a referendum, or a plebiscite, or a
vote per se. The I-VOTE app may apply to any vote taken
for any community issue, except for elections of persons
per above.

3. “Polls” pertain to questions posed by anyone to others for

their democratic opinion (which is neither an election nor
a vote). Questions are posed usually for the purpose of
researching constituent and community views and
expectations about any issue. The I-SAY app may apply to
any question put by a pollster, the pollee’s reply to which
effectively states: “I say in answer to that question, etc.
[an answer or no answer as the app user decides].”

4. “Petitions” pertain to proposals put by anyone to other

persons for their support, pursuant to their community’s
freedom of speech laws. The I-SIGN app may apply to any
petition put by the petitioner, the signee’s response which
effectively states: “I wish to record my support for the
proposal contained in this petition by signing my name to
the petition [or the petition is rejected by the app user,
or no response at all as the app user decides]”.

Important to the success of the four apps is the education of

MI-DEMOCRACY licensees (ie. the election authority, vote-taker,
pollster or petitioner) and users/constituents (electors,

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voters, pollees and signees) about the practical distinction
between “elections” per se and “votes” generally.

As referred to above, “elections” pertain only to the elections

of persons (or parties) by electors, whilst “votes” may pertain
to any issue at all, including persons. It is the uniqueness
of the personal nature of elections which distinguishes
“elections” from “votes” generally. MI-DEMOCRACY applies this
distinction through the I-ELECT and I-VOTE apps, for the sake
of perception and reality.

The four apps are planned to operate through MI-DEMOCRACY secure

blockchain software, user multi-factor authorisation and
licencing systems developed by the consortium of investors and
owners of mi-democracy.org. The four app development costs to
the “live trial” test stage are estimated to be up to
USD$25million.

MI-DEMOCRACY will develop and operate the four apps through a

public, commercially operated corporate structure, such as for
example, a “MI-DEMOCRACY Foundation”. All income generated by
MI-DEMOCRACY will be applied to MI-DEMOCRACY development costs,
operating expenses and research, with net income/profits being
available for associated community projects around the world.

In summary, the four apps in practice operate so that for each

Election, Vote, Poll or Petition, MI-DEMOCRACY allocates a
unique licence code to the person, government, corporation,
council, organisation, community, club or other entity (“the
licensee”) who wishes to conduct the election, vote, poll or
petition using MI-DEMOCRACY. The unique licence code enables
the content for the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition to be
downloaded to the relevant four app, which may then be uploaded
(or rejected) by the app user (elector, voter, pollee or signee)
for engagement in the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition.

The four apps are proposed to operate on a commercial basis

whereby the licensee pays to MI-DEMOCRACY a nominal sum (“the
licence fee”) for each engagement by a user of the relevant four
app. For example, a government which holds a general election
offering the I-ELECT app as a voting option to user constituents,
may pay MI-DEMOCRACY say USD$1.00 for each vote received through
the I-ELECT app. A company which seeks a stockholder vote on a
company issue may pay USD$1.50 per vote for each vote cast using
the I-VOTE app, etc.

Licensees of polls and petitions using the I-SAY app and the I-
SIGN app respectively are charged by MI-DEMOCRACY in the same
manner. The licence fee must be set at a nominal charge per
user engagement, being an immaterial cost to the licensee, a
material benefit to the user, and a commercial return to MI-
DEMOCRACY.

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Users (ie. the electors, voters, pollees and signees
respectively) of the four apps will not need to be charged any
fee, given the economies of scale and productivity gains
benefitting licensees who use any of the four apps for their
Election, Vote, Poll and Petition purposes.

All four app users (constituents) who engage with the relevant
app will receive a unique lodgement/receipt number from the
licensee through the MI-DEMOCRACY blockchain, so that the user
can verify securely and confidentially, their Election, Vote,
Poll and Petition engagement. In this way the licensees and
users can mutually prove the integrity of their Election, Vote,
Poll and Petition results as never before in the history of
democracy.

The much higher degrees of integrity, equality, accuracy,

completeness, timeliness and efficiency of the results generated
for licensees through the four apps will provide the best form
of promotion of the MI-DEMOCRACY system to all the people of the
world. Over time, use of the MI-DEMOCRACY system will become
so pervasive that it will form an interesting and happy part of
the everyday lives of all peoples and communities of the world.

It is proposed that the software engineering and development

contracts be offered initially to firms who have a proven record
in positive technological and sociological change. The MI-
DEMOCRACY Foundation as the promoter of MI-DEMOCRACY must also
be adequately resourced to govern the development,
implementation and operations of the four apps all over the
world, and to undertake research on the results of MI-DEMOCRACY
and democracies generally, into the future.

Through MI-DEMOCRACY, the I-ELECT app will provide better

community representatives, the I-VOTE app will lead to better
community decision-making, the I-POLL app will lead to better
understanding of community opinions and expectations, and the
I-SIGN app will allow free speech to flourish more meaningfully
than ever before.

From a practical viewpoint, with MI-DEMOCRACY the people of the

world are provided the best means in history for conducting and
engaging in democratic Elections, Votes, Polls and Petitions in
a cost effective and efficient manner. From an academic
viewpoint, MI-DEMOCRACY solves one of history’s great democratic
conundrums, of how to improve the people’s participation in
community decision-making quantitatively and qualitatively.

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 2 MI-DEMOCRACY THEORETICAL BASIS SUMMARY

The theoretical basis for the four apps is derived from the
central mechanisms inherent in every democracy, which are
Elections, Votes, Polls and Petitions. These mechanisms however
overlap in definitional meaning, theory and practice. These
overlaps have contributed to the failures and sub-optimal
outcomes of democracies in the past.

MI-DEMOCRACY overcomes the defective uses of these mechanisms,

through clarification of the meanings, theories and practices
of “Elections”, “Votes” “Polls” and “Petitions”. MI-DEMOCRACY
indeed relies heavily on the certainty of meaning of these terms
for its success. The Appendix “The Meaning of Democracy” offers
further clarification of the true meaning of democracy.

I-ELECT app theoretical basis

Traditional and customary usage of the word “Elections” has

always referred to natural persons being “elected
representatives”, elected by “electors”. Electors (often called
“voters”) choose between candidates (or parties of candidates)
for positions of office. “Elections” are however often referred
to colloquially as a “vote” or “going to the polls” etc. The
I-ELECT app applies only to the elections of persons per se.

There is no accepted term (in English at least) for the

parliament, corporate organisation, union, club or association
(ie. any kind of community) who conducts an “election”. The
term “elector” precludes the use of the word “electee”.
Invariably the entity calling for and conducting an election is
a governing authority, which by the constitution of its
particular community, is authorised to hold an election. Hence
the term “election authority” is used in MI-DEMOCRACY to mean
the governing authority authorised and responsible for
conducting the Election.

I-VOTE app theoretical basis

The I-VOTE app is applied in accordance with its customary use

as a noun and a verb for referendums. The traditional, customary
and typical use of referendums, in the political context, has
been to gather votes from “voters” about morality based
political issues such as suffrage, “rights to life”, “rights to
die”, other human rights, declarations of war and other
decisions for reference by the community in deciding its future.

In the non-political context, referendums (also referred to as

“plebiscites” or just “votes”) are often held for important
decisions to be taken by public and private corporations, such
as for significant changes to organisational operations, merging
organisations, amending the constitutions of corporations,

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investment strategies, etc. Voters therefore may be
constituents, members, shareholders, activists, members of the
public, players, competitors, supporters and any other person
entitled and eligible to exercise a right to vote as bestowed
on them by the governing authority authorised and
constitutionally responsible for conducting the vote.

There is no generic word (in English at least) for the government

entity, corporate organisation, firm, club, association or
person who conducts a “vote”. Hence the term “vote conductor”
is used in MI-DEMOCRACY to mean that entity or person who
conducts a Vote for any purpose (other than an election).

I-SAY app theoretical basis

Polls can provide a useful assessment of the status of a

community’s mood and expectation on any issue at a particular
time. The term “poll” is applied by MI-DEMOCRACY in its most
colloquial sense and as a reference to the simple process where
a pollster (or poller) conducts a poll democratically and the
pollee is the respondent participant in the poll.

Traditional opinion polls are often compromised by a credibility

gap arising from the biases of pollsters and their sponsors.
The MI-DEMOCRACY I-SAY app eliminates the credibility gap by its
independence and method of implementation. The I-SAY app may
be used under licence by any pollster, whether a person, firm,
corporation, governing authority, political party or other type
of pollster in a community, who wishes to conduct an “opinion
poll” or any other type of Poll.

I-SIGN app theoretical basis

Petitions are examples of freedom of speech and peaceful

democratic demands for action. Traditionally, petitions are
created by “petitioners” organising lists of signatories,
manually or computer generated, in favour of the petitioned
cause or policy. There is no generic word for the person or
entity who consents to sign and be named as a supporter of a
petition. (A “petitionee” is the authority to whom the petition
is addressed for notice of the petition – usually a government
minister, department head or religious leader).

The MI-DEMOCRACY “I-SIGN app” is designed for licensed use by

any “petitioner”, whether a person, firm, corporation,
organisation, government or other type of petitioner in any
community seeking to organise a Petition. The constituents
supporting a Petition “sign up” for the cause of the Petition
to indicate their support, hence the MI-DEMOCRACY I-SIGN app
refers to “signees” of Petitions.

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 3. MI-DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENT PLAN OVERVIEW

MI-DEMOCRACY Legal Ownership and Development Responsibility

The MI-DEMOCRACY Foundation (proposed to be a consortium, owned

and managed as a not-for-profit commercial entity) shall own and
control the development, testing, implementation and operations
of the four apps. The MI-DEMOCRACY Foundation will therefore
own the intellectual property in the four apps.

MI-DEMOCRACY will be a type of commercial enterprise that could

invite various forms of global consortium ownership and
investment, provided that it continues to conduct its operations
according to its core democratic principles.

MI-DEMOCRACY Core Principles of Development, Governance and

Operation

The core democratic principles underpinning the development,

governance and operation of MI-DEMOCRACY are integrity,
equality, independence, transparency, accuracy, completeness,
efficiency, accountability, viability and respect and dignity
for every person of the world.

MI-DEMOCRACY Software and Hardware Development Engineering

MI-DEMOCRACY will develop app, social media and on-line

education hardware and software components. These include:
• MI-DEMOCRACY web-site for promotion, education, licensee
log-ins, app downloads, help desk, advice, etc.
• MI-DEMOCRACY social media platforms for marketing,
promotion, education, feedback and engagement across the
world.
• MI-DEMOCRACY four apps with multi-factor authorisation
technology for user registration and engagement in each
Election, Vote, Poll and Petition.
• Blockchain technology for operational integrity, secure
record keeping, research and analysis of each of the four
apps.
• Phone, tablet and pc hardware access to the four apps.
• On-line access for data centre and help desk resources for
licensees, such as for promoting and perfecting content for
elections, votes, polls and petitions.

Hardware and software development engineering will require

“backroom” wholesale software engineering for blockchain,
licensee and user security registration for the MI-DEMOCRACY
operations as a whole, and retail software engineering for the
development, operation and maintenance of the four apps.

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Algorithms and commands will enable the licensee and user
interface, mitigate abusive content, identify ambiguities in
Election, Vote, Poll and Petition content, refer licensees and
users to national help desks, and report MI-DEMOCRACY anomalies.

MI-DEMOCRACY Development and Funding Timetable

The development timetable for MI-DEMOCRACY is 18 months to 2

years. This will involve concept finalisation and the management
and engagement of the hardware and software engineers to write,
develop and test the four apps. The estimated capital
development cost is up to USD$25million based on an average of
say USD$4million for each of the four apps, USD$4million for the
MI-DEMOCRACY social media platforms and the balance of
USD$5million for concept development, compliance,
administration and launch.

Live implementation and operation of the four apps is likely to

commence prior to the end of year 2. The likely payback period
for the cost of investment is less than 5 years, assuming the
roll out is supported by sufficient numbers of governments,
corporations and endorsement from the United Nations and ngos.

MI-DEMOCRACY Foundation’s Financial Model Overview

Initial investment capital and start-up development costs to the

global implementation phase is estimated at USD$25million as
above. Operating income and earnings, due no later than from
the commencement of year 3, will be derived from licensee
contracts based on user engagement numbers. Licence fees will
be charged according to globally scaled contracted rates, based
on the four apps licences.

For example, a government who buys a MI-DEMOCRACY licence to use

the I-ELECT app for an election will be liable to pay to MI-
DEMOCRACY the “election licence fee” based on the nature of the
election and the number of constituents (users) who engage in
the election through the I-ELECT app. The MI-DEMOCRACY fiscal
outcomes are therefore tied to licensee take-up and user
engagement rates.

MI-DEMOCRACY Financial and Fiscal Objectives

The overall financial objective is for MI-DEMOCRACY to earn

annual revenues sufficient to adsorb all annual actual and
amortised costs and yielding a 50% net profit annually.

The MI-DEMOCRACY Foundation fiscal objective is to be a multi-

billion dollar commercial enterprise based on the core
principles of democracy, being those same core principles of MI-
DEMOCRACY referred to above.

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The global application of the MI-DEMOCRACY four apps to all
communities of the world, combined with the user focussed
commercial imperatives of MI-DEMOCRACY, will ensure the fiscal
outcomes for all stakeholders are significant and continuous
into the future. This will also enable the MI-DEMOCRACY
Foundation to invest funds from net profits into community
projects around the world, using constituent engagement to
decide on the types of community projects.

The fiscal endgame for MI-DEMOCRACY licensees is obviously

greater wealth and value, as licensees become more credible and
trusted social citizens in their communities, as a result of
their utilisation of the four apps.

The fiscal endgame for MI-DEMOCRACY’s users is spectacular, as

it includes the monetisation and securitisation of a user’s
engagement with the four apps. This is achieved by a user’s
engagement, quantitatively and qualitatively, becoming a form
of currency and security, at the election of the user.

For example, all users may earn Global Debits (GDs) from their
app engagements, which may be traded for goods and services
offered by participating firms anywhere in the world. Global
Debits will necessarily be governed separate to MI-DEMOCRACY,
but based on the MI-DEMOCRACY data for each user, as authorised
by each user.

The higher the integrity of a user’s engagement with the four

apps, measured quantitatively and qualitatively using AI through
the MI-DEMOCRACY blockchain, the more GDs earned by the user.
A Global Debit system based on the principles of integrity will
result in even more democratic value for users, such as non-
transferable global citizenship rights, political, commercial
and social immunities and value recognition of many other kinds.

MI-DEMOCRACY is capable of valuing and storing integrity

(anonymously or not as desired by the user) based on a
user’s/constituent’s interest, participation, contribution,
reflection, thoughtfulness and other indicators of integrity
arising from the user’s/constituent’s engagement with the four
apps. The value may be “stored” in a “Global Debit Bank”
operated by GD.com, for example.

A Global Debit system based on fundamental democratic principles

and linked to user integrity and participation in MI-DEMOCRACY
is the ultimate form of currency for any individual, and the
world.

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 4 MI-DEMOCRACY Implementation and Operations Overview.

The MI-DEMOCRACY Foundation and its consortium members will

promote, implement and operate MI-DEMOCRACY and the four apps.
For each community, nation and globally, the four apps will be
enabled for licensee and user engagement for any type of licensed
Election, Vote, Poll or Petition.

MI-DEMOCRACY Licence System

Grant of Licences

MI-DEMOCRACY grants a licence to each licensee for each

Election, Vote, Poll or Petition. MI-DEMOCRACY software
programs will operate to ensure the content of each Election,
Vote, Poll and Petition is verified, signed off by the licensee
and approved for promotion and user engagement.

The results of the Election, Votes, Polls and Petitions are the
property of the licensee. The licensee is able to independently
verify and audit the MI-DEMOCRACY four app results of any
Election, Vote, Poll or Petition using the MI-DEMOCRACY
blockchain.

Four Apps Licensee Contract Terms and Conditions

Each MI-DEMOCRACY licence shall contain standard terms and

conditions of licence for each Election, Vote, Poll and
Petition. Special terms and conditions shall be applicable to
the uniqueness of each Election, Vote, Poll and Petition, such
as the licence code, details of the licensee, the content of
each Election, Vote, Poll or Petition and the licence fee.

The unique MI-DEMOCRACY licence code issued to licensees is the

“key” for every licensee and user to obtain and verify results
and reports on-line in real time for each Election, Vote, Poll
and Petition.

Four Apps User Engagement Terms and Conditions

User engagement terms and conditions will apply for uploading

each of the four apps. User registration with MI-DEMOCRACY is
required for user participation in each of the four apps. Many
user constituents will utilise each of the four apps as user
notifications will be unique for each app.

Users will be registered and interact with MI-DEMOCRACY through

multi-factor authorisations for privacy, security, user data
collection and other MI-DEMOCRACY user benefits. Users
(constituents) will not be charged any fees for registration nor
for use of the four apps on the principle that the exercise of
one’s democratic rights ought to be equal and free.

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Users may deregister their participation in MI-DEMOCRACY, at any
time, as is their democratic right.

Four Apps Licence Fee Structures

The four apps licence fee structures for licensees will be based
on estimated and actual user/constituent engagement. Commercial
licence fees structures will apply so that licence affordability
is not an issue for licensees and will be immaterial and, for
many, tax deductible.

Licence fee structures are likely to range from USD$1cent per

engagement (eg one vote) to no more than USD$2.00 per engagement,
depending on the type of Election, Vote, Poll or Petition. The
fee structures will be so economical that licensees will be
fiscally driven to use the four apps, rather than rely on other
expensive, traditional democratic bureaucracies.

MI-DEMOCRACY Licensee Procedures for any Election, Vote, Poll

or Petition

Step 1: Application for MI-DEMOCRACY Licence.

Any person, or government, or corporation, or firm or club or

other entity in the world may apply on-line for a licence for
use of any of the four apps for a particular Election, Vote,
Poll or Petition. Applications for a licence may be made through
the MI-DEMOCRACY web-sites at the global and national levels.

For a large scale Election or Vote, such as national elections

and referendums, governments are likely to work closely with the
MI-DEMOCRACY Executive to ensure the licence terms and
conditions are approved and effective for the purpose of the
Election or Vote, especially in respect of the design and content
of the Election and Vote ballot e-papers.

Step 2: MI-DEMOCRACY Offer of Licence.

MI-DEMOCRACY issues an acknowledgment of receipt of the

application for licence. The application is vetted
electronically for integrity. MI-DEMOCRACY then downloads the
offer of a MI-DEMOCRACY licence with the licence terms and
conditions for approval by the applicant.

Step 3: Applicant Acceptance of MI-DEMOCRACY Offer of Licence

and Issue of MI-DEMOCRACY Licence Code.

The applicant/licensee must acknowledge receipt of and accept

the MI-DEMOCRACY terms and conditions of licence for the
particular Election, Vote, Poll or Petition. Upon receipt of
acceptance of the offer for the MI-DEMOCRACY Election, Vote,

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Poll or Petition licence, a MI-DEMOCRACY unique licence code is
issued to the licensee. At this stage, the MI-DEMOCRACY “help
desks” are made available to assist the licensee in optimising
the content, such as words and phrases and layout and method of
the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition.

Step 4: Licensee Upload and Promotion of Election, Vote, Poll

and Petition Content.

Upon receipt of the licence code, the licensee is then directed

to upload the requisite information needed to conduct the
Election, Vote, Poll or Petition as prompted by the MI-DEMOCRACY
four apps software, such as e-ballot papers and user engagement
instructions.

From the time of upload and issue of the unique licence code,
the licensee may advertise and promote the Election, Vote, Poll
or Petition to its global, national or local community, using
the unique licence code as a user/constituent reference.
Licensees will generally seek to secure maximum user/constituent
engagement in the MI-DEMOCRACY four apps.

All MI-DEMOCRACY user/constituents who have uploaded the four

apps will receive a MI-DEMOCRACY prompt on their device for
input of the licence code to engage in the specific Election,
Vote, Poll or Petition for which they are eligible, in accordance
with the licensee’s criteria.

Step 5: MI-DEMOCRACY Processing of the Election, Vote, Poll and

Petition.

When the licensee has completed the upload of the Election,

Vote, Poll or Petition content and user engagement instructions,
the MI-DEMOCRACY software takes over the processing of the
user’s engagement in the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition in
accordance with the licensee’s uploaded criteria.

For example, the e-ballot papers uploaded by the licensee onto

the I-ELECT app or the I-VOTE app will be completed and submitted
by the user who has downloaded the e-ballot paper upon receiving
the MI-DEMOCRACY prompt to engage in that Election or Vote.

Step 6: MI-DEMOCRACY Results of the Election, Vote, Poll or

Petition.

From the time of the licensee’s upload of the content and user
engagement instructions for the Election, Vote, Poll or
Petition, the licensee will be able to access in real time the
progress results of their Election, Vote, Poll, or Petition
generated by the MI-DEMOCRACY software, four apps and the
blockchain.

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Step 7: MI-DEMOCRACY Closure of the Election, Vote, Poll or
Petition.

Upon closure of the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition in

accordance with the licensee’s requirements, the unique licence
code for the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition expires and can
no longer be used for access by the relevant app. The final
results of the MI-DEMOCRACY Election, Vote, Poll or Petition,
having been downloaded in real time to the licensee, vest with
the licensee for future reference, audit and vetting.

The MI-DEMOCRACY system will also securely and confidentially

store the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition data in blockchain
if recovery is ever needed in the future, or for Global Debit
Bank purposes.

MI-DEMOCRACY User/Constituent Engagement Procedures for any

Election, Vote, Poll or Petition

Step 1: User/Constituent Download Availability of the MI-

DEMOCRACY Four Apps.

Any user/constituent person in the world who owns a smart phone,

tablet or computer with adequate on-line access will be able to
download any or all of the four apps at any time. The MI-
DEMOCRACY Foundation will promote the four apps through social
media and sponsoring organisations.

Step 2: User/Constituent Registration for MI-DEMOCRACY and App

Download.

All users intending to be eligible for, and to engage in, a MI-

DEMOCRACY Election, Vote, Poll or Petition must register with
MI-DEMOCRACY to download the four apps. MI-DEMOCRACY user
registration will require at least a three-factor authorisation
security identification, comprising (1) a cell phone number, (2)
an email address user id with password, and (3) an optional
national citizen reference id, such as a passport id or citizen
social security id.

Other personal details entered for a specific four app licence

(say a shareholder number, club number, etc) may be used by the
licensee to prompt and notify the user of the Election, Vote,
Poll or Petition in which the user is entitled to engage in.

Step 3: MI-DEMOCRACY User Engagement in the MI-DEMOCRACY

Licenced Election, Vote, Poll or Petition via the Four Apps.

Upon registration with MI-DEMOCRACY and having downloaded one

or more of the four apps, the user may either be prompted through
MI-DEMOCRACY to engage in an Election, Vote, Poll or Petition
by the licensee, or the user may personally enter the licensee’s

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publicly advertised unique licence code to engage in the
relevant Election, Vote, Poll or Petition by the app. If the
user receives a prompt to engage, then the user may accept or
decline the prompt, without prejudice to that user’s other
rights of engagement.

For example, in the case of a nation’s general election where

MI-DEMOCRACY is one option for engagement in the general
election, all citizens of that nation who have registered with
MI-DEMOCRACY will receive a prompt from their nation’s
government to vote in the election via the MI-DEMOCRACY I-ELECT
app. The user may accept the prompt to vote in the election via
the I-ELECT app, or decline the prompt and vote manually, or not
vote at all.

If the user/constituent declines the prompt to engage, then the

relevant app closes for the user in respect of that licence
code. If the user/constituent accepts the prompt, then the user
will be taken to the licensee’s MI-DEMOCRACY Election, Vote,
Poll or Petition home page, to engage.

The licensee’s MI-DEMOCRACY home page appearing in the app will

contain a summary of the background to the Election, Vote, Poll
or Petition and instructions for the user’s engagement as
“elector”, “voter”, “pollee” or “signee”. These engagement
instructions are likely to include, for example, “candidate
name” or “party name” tick box options (for elections), “yes/no”
tick box options (for votes/referendums), “for/against” tick box
options (for polls) and “like/dislike” tick box options (for
petitions), etc. The user will engage and “submit” his/her
democratic decision(s) accordingly.

Step 4: MI-DEMOCRACY User/Constituent Record of Engagement.

Following the user’s engagement in the Election, Vote, Poll or

Petition, the relevant MI-DEMOCRACY app will issue to the user
a “Record of Engagement” notification, including a unique
engagement reference number for the user to trace, verify and
audit the user’s engagement in the Election, Vote, Poll or
Petition through the licensee’s own web-site.

MI-DEMOCRACY users may also be provided on-line access to the

overall results of the Election, Vote, Poll or Petition
accordingly to the licensee’s rules of user engagement.

Step 5: MI-DEMOCRACY Four App Closure of the Election, Vote,

Poll or Petition.

Upon the download and issue of the Record of Engagement the user
will not be able to re-use the licence code to re-access that
particular MI-DEMOCRACY licensed Election, Vote, Poll or
Petition through the relevant app. The user/constituent will

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however retain a copy of the unique licence code on the Record
of Engagement (which has its own unique user engagement
reference number) for user and licensee audit purposes as
referred to above.

MI-DEMOCRACY Implementation

The MI-DEMOCRACY development phase period is expected to be 18

months to 2 years as noted above. Live implementation of the
four apps is therefore expected from about the end of year two.

The short term (1-2 years) qualitative outcomes from the

commencement of operations of MI-DEMOCRACY and the four apps
will be difficult to observe initially, due to predicted
resistance from many public and private sector incumbent
political, economic and military organisations and corporations
around the world.

Whilst there may be some large government and corporation

licensees in the short term, there will more likely be medium
and smaller firm licensee successes for MI-DEMOCRACY, as
personal and community based social media support the MI-
DEMOCRACY four apps. It is hoped that the United Nations will
promote the use of MI-DEMOCRACY (perhaps even as a stakeholder
too) for the often difficult and complex developing world
national elections.

The medium term (years 3-5) and long term (> 5 years) outcomes
from the operations of MI-DEMOCRACY will be quantitatively and
qualitatively measurable, as usage of the four apps extends to
many national elections and global causes around the world.
Significant improvements in the freedoms, equality, safety and
happiness of people of the world resulting from MI-DEMOCRACY
will be obvious and measurable from the medium term onwards.

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 5 MI-DEMOCRACY Licensee and User Benefits Summary

As referred to above, engagement with the MI-DEMOCRACY four apps

will benefit two groups, “licensees” and “users”.

The first group is the MI-DEMOCRACY fee-paying licensees, being

the election authority using the I-ELECT app, the vote conductor
using the I-VOTE app, the pollster using the I-SAY app and the
petitioner using the I-SIGN app. MI-DEMOCRACY licensees will
use the four apps for the following benefits:

Transparency MI-DEMOCRACY is easier to understand than

traditional democratic mechanisms used for
Elections, Votes, Polls and Petitions.

Trust MI-DEMOCRACY as an independent contract service

improves the credibility of the licensee.

Efficiency MI-DEMOCRACY engagement is more efficient than

manual and other on-line electronic democratic
systems.

Cost MI-DEMOCRACY is a more cost effective option for

conducting Elections, Votes, Polls and Petitions
than other manual and computerised systems.

Reliability MI-DEMOCRACY is more reliable in timing and

accuracy compared to traditional and other
electronic democratic systems.

Safety MI-DEMOCRACY is safer for user/constituents,

because there is no need for personal attendances
at elections and referendums.

Optional MI-DEMOCRACY is optional for electors, voters,

pollees and signees at the discretion of the
licensee, and may be operated in parallel with
other manual and computerised Election, Vote,
Poll and Petition systems.

The second group is the MI-DEMOCRACY non fee-paying

users/constituents, being the electors using the I-ELECT app for
Elections, the voters using the I-VOTE app for Votes and
referendums etc, the pollees using the I-SAY app for Polls and
the signees using the I-SIGN app for Petitions. MI-DEMOCRACY
users/constituents will engage in the four apps for the
following benefits:

Convenience MI-DEMOCRACY engagement in Elections, Votes,

Polls and Petitions may be at anytime from
anywhere in the world.

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Safety MI-DEMOCRACY engagement is more private and safer
than current election, vote, poll and petition
practices.

Security MI-DEMOCRACY multi-factor authorisations and

blockchain security are less susceptible to fraud
and manipulation than current systems used for
democratic practices.

Verification MI-DEMOCRACY engagement can be checked and

verified by the user through MI-DEMOCRACY and
licensee on-line data bases.

Integrity MI-DEMOCRACY is independently owned and operated,

not able to be influenced or corrupted by the
licensees.

Voluntary MI-DEMOCRACY engagement is voluntary, ie. the

elector, voter, pollee and signee can engage
otherwise than through MI-DEMOCRACY as directed
by the licensee.

Confidential MI-DEMOCRACY user/constituent engagement is

confidential and anonymous to the extent required
by the user and by the MI-DEMOCRACY software
technology.

History MI-DEMOCRACY will enable each user to record

their personal history of contribution to their
democracies through the blockchain.

Fiscal MI-DEMOCRACY, at the option of the

user/constituent, will be able to commercialise
their democratic engagements through the
accumulation of Global Debits (GDs). The value
system for Global Debits as a global currency
will be pegged to a democratically determined
standard based on the quantitative and
qualitative engagements of the user/constituent.
The Global Debit system will not utilise (nor
impose) any form of credit obligation or other
liability on the user/constituent, consistent
with the principles of MI-DEMOCRACY.

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 6 MI-DEMOCRACY Benefits for Democracy Generally

MI-DEMOCRACY aims to be the most effective and safest means for

all the people of the world to make peaceful and positive change
for their communities and the world, by participating as
licensees and users of the four apps. MI-DEMOCRACY also aims
to become a healthy, happy, interesting and fiscally beneficial
part of the daily lives of all the people of the world.

MI-DEMOCRACY achieves these goals in relation to Elections by

offering greater integrity, transparency and accuracy than any
election authority can otherwise provide electors. The
credibility of national political elections in particular will
benefit from the I-ELECT app, which can accommodate all types
of election systems. Political elections using the I-ELECT app
will become far more peaceful and efficient.

In relation to Votes and referendums of any kind the MI-DEMOCRACY

I-VOTE app offers so much flexibility for vote conductors that
votes will become more plentiful and meaningful. The I-VOTE app
efficiencies and high degrees of independence, accuracy and
completeness will give voters more confidence and trust in the
reported outcomes of all Votes.

In relation to Polls, the MI-DEMOCRACY I-SAY app offers

pollsters greater credibility as opinion polls will achieve much
higher levels of participation, integrity, transparency and
accuracy. And in relation to Petitions, the MI-DEMOCRACY I-SIGN
app offers petitioners and signees more hope, confidence and
trust in the exercise of free speech by petitions generally.

Political independence is crucial to the success of MI-

DEMOCRACY. Delivery of MI-DEMOCRACY to the world otherwise, say
through existing governments, ngos and corporations by a top
down approach, is not possible nor desirable because of the
politics involved. Whilst general political support for MI-
DEMOCRACY would be welcome, MI-DEMOCRACY is also about carefully
and prudently restoring the balance of political power between
governing elites and the people of the world.

MI-DEMOCRACY will mitigate, and in some cases eliminate

entirely, political, economic and social extremism in every
community of every nation in the world, by improving the outcomes
of Elections, Votes, Polls and Petitions in every nation of the
world.

MI-DEMOCRACY is designed to help the people of the world evolve

into better communities for the future, through being less
political and more democratic. This is the future of democracy.

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 7 MI-DEMOCRACY EXAMPLES

I-ELECT App

The I-ELECT app is ideal for global, national, regional and

local political elections and elections for corporations. The
I-ELECT app will significantly reduce political election
violence and confusion, as seen recently in Kenya (low degree
of election integrity), Venezuela (uncertainty of outcome)
Australia (thousands of multiple votes), Malaysia (confusion)
and India (inadvertent deaths and injury to scrutineers).

Governments are encouraged to licence the I-ELECT app from MI-

DEMOCRACY to promote the independence, integrity, accuracy and
completeness of their political election outcomes to their
electors. Licence fee income to MI-DEMOCRACY will reflect
elector engagement at say one unit of currency or equivalent per
constituent, so that the I-ELECT app will offer far more cost
effective election outcomes.

Multinational and national corporations will also licence the

I-ELECT app for the convenience of their constituent members.
Local and small organisations will find the I-ELECT app more
convenient and cost effective for their constituents too.

I-VOTE App

The I-VOTE app is ideal for global, national, regional and local
referendums. It is also ideal for votes taken by large private
and public sector organisations.

Governments and organisations of any kind may licence the I-

VOTE app for each Vote and thereby offer greater credibility,
accuracy and efficiency to their voters. For example, if the
UK Government had been able to licence the I-POLL app and the
I-VOTE app, then the Brexit vote could have given a far more
accurate and complete, and perhaps different picture of national
feeling towards Brexit at the time. A Brexit or Brentry I-POLL
and a further I-VOTE will be possible with MI-DEMOCRACY in the
future.

The I-VOTE may also be used by legislatures around the world,

to conduct more efficient parliamentary law making, and by ngos
and other international and national organisations and firms
whose voters are required to vote on important (and unimportant)
issues.

I-POLL App

The I-POLL app is ideally suited for use in the more centralised
democracies such as Russia and China. The I-POLL can provide

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such democracies with more certainty of community attitudes
about national issues under consideration.

The I-POLL app will also generate greater community confidence

in polls taken by big governments and corporations, who for many
years have often “weighted” their polls to contrive the result
desired for their own media publications.

The I-POLL app can also be used as a pre-cursor to the I-ELECT

app and I-VOTE app for pre-election forecasts and public opinion
on global and national issues.

The I-POLL app may be licensed by any organisation or person to

obtain independent pollee opinions on such issues as, for
example, border protection, the environment, human rights,
electric vehicles and the death penalty. The I-POLL app will
provide more integrity and certainty than all other polling
systems, because of its independence.

I-SIGN App

The I-SIGN app is suited to dealing with complex issues and

intellectual proposals, such as relating to disputed
territories, human rights and care for the environment. The I-
SIGN app is ideal for use by any large or small non-government
organisations seeking to promote positive change to policies and
laws for improving community outcomes. The I-SIGN app provides
a platform for the provision of detailed information and
argument to user/constituents, who may then “sign up” in support
of the licensee’s proposition being petitioned.

Obvious recent examples are the 2019 fluoro protests in France

and the constitutional protests in Hong Kong. These protesters
would conduct far clearer, more truthful and more effective
campaigns if they used the I-SIGN app, where each signee may
remain anonymous, whilst their MI-DEMOCRACY engagement is
independently verifiable through the MI-DEMOCRACY blockchain.

Using the I-SIGN app as a form of truly peaceful protest combined

with freedom of speech, would significantly mitigate conflicts
and animosity which still arise in modern protests.

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 APPENDIX – THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY

Over the past few thousand years, there has been a lot of
discussion, debate and writings about democracy. Democracy has
often been criticised that it does not work properly, that it
is merely a default system for good government and that it works
only for those in control of power. The word “democracy” has
also had many meanings, such as, for example, being a political
system of government, a political philosophy, and an ethical or
moral code.

“Democracy” however, really refers to one type of decision-

making process used by communities to govern themselves. And
like any process it can work well, or work badly, or not work
at all, and it can be manipulated. The meaning of democracy has
long warranted a theoretical and practical restatement, to
resolve misunderstandings and overcome ignorance of its
importance and how it really works.

The word “democracy” is most likely derived from the ancient

Greek words “demos” meaning “people” and “kratis” meaning
“power”, which together is “people power”. Democracy therefore
means power to, or of, the people. People can mean individual
persons or a community of persons. Power means the authority
to make decisions and the ability to act on those decisions.

Democracy therefore truly means the authority and ability of

people, individually and in community, to think, decide and act
for themselves and for their community as a whole.

When a person lives alone, then that person has the freedom,
authority and ability to think, decide and act as they wish.
When a person lives in community with others, then that person
has the freedom, authority and ability to think, decide and act
as they wish, but necessarily subject to the actions of other
people in the community. Thus the true meaning of “democracy”
has evolved from many theories and practices of democracy over
thousands of years, since the times when the earliest peoples
of the world first thought of making some decisions as a
community, and not just individually.

This restatement of the meaning of democracy raises the

question: When people live in community, how and by what
processes are decisions made, and actions taken, using people
power? The answer is that there is a wide spectrum of varieties
of processes (election systems for example) by which decisions
are made and actions taken by individual persons in a community
- the “Democracy Spectrum”. “Democracy” in this context being
a generic name for the many systems, processes and mechanisms
used by a community to make decisions using people power.

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Anything outside of the Democracy Spectrum may be considered or
assumed undemocratic. For instance, an undemocratic method of
community decision-making is where an individual person is
unable to make a decision, nor act (such as to vote) without
fear of physical violence and persecution, or makes a decision
which is ignored by the other members of the community. In
these instances, the person is either denied the power to freely
make a decision or such power is worthless, ie. there is no
“people power” vested in that person.

At one pole of the Democracy Spectrum is “Decentralised

Democracy” where, in theory, each person may decide on every
issue affecting the community (a theoretical form of “direct
democracy”). In practice this is impossible to achieve because
every person cannot decide on everything affecting a community.
At the other pole of the Democracy Spectrum is “Centralised
Democracy” where, in theory, a central person decides on every
issue affecting the community. In practice this also is
impossible to achieve, because one person cannot decide on
everything affecting a community.

In between these poles of the Democracy Spectrum are

combinations of more or less democratic systems, processes and
mechanisms adopted by most if not all countries of the world.
For example, there are constitutional democracies, managed
democracies, representative democracies, republican
democracies, monarchical democracies, socialist democracies,
pluralist democracies, federal democracies, communist
democracies, national democracies, community democracies and all
sorts of other democracies. Any of these types of democracies
may achieve better outcomes for a community than other types,
depending on social, cultural and community attitudes and norms.

In fact, by definition there are as many types of democracy as

there are democratic systems, processes and mechanisms for the
exercise of people power. Certain democratic systems, processes
and mechanisms may be relatively more or less democratic than
others according to where they sit on the Democracy Spectrum.
For example, voluntary voting at political elections is more
democratic than compulsory voting at political elections.

Obvious examples of how democratic systems, processes and

mechanisms are applied in communities include; voluntary voting
at elections, compulsory voting at elections, majority rule,
special majority rule, referendums and plebiscites, party
representation, constitutions, voting ballots, preferential
voting, voting by show of hands, voting by voice, delegation of
decision making powers, timing of elections, term of political
office, the system of government, separations of constitutional
powers, voting transparency, equality/inequality of votes,
disclosure of interests, suffrage, conflicts of interest, powers

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of veto, a bill of rights, constitutional conventions, and many
others.

Communities, countries and nations adopt different types of

democracies based on their origins and customs. Sometimes the
biggest issue for a community is not the democratic process
itself, but how that process is implemented, such as in the case
of national elections. Democratic processes can be manipulated
to put self-interest ahead of community interest. Democratic
processes are also easy to misrepresent and are generally
misunderstood by people with only a passing interest in
democracy.

Some democratic processes are better than others on ethical

grounds. For example, it is preferable for communities to decide
to adopt a written constitution rather than rely on unwritten
custom and convention, for the sake of certainty. Often however,
written constitutions are so poorly drafted that communities
become confused over its interpretation and application.
Constitutions of communities based on the principles of freedom,
equality, safety and happiness for all the people of those
communities are generally preferred to those constitutions
serving only to protect a few people’s interests in those
communities.

“Democracy” is therefore not at all ambiguous. It is merely a

word for the many systems, processes and mechanisms adopted by
communities for making decisions affecting those communities and
the people who live in them.

Any sensible and proper debate about democracy will not be about
democracy itself, but about which democratic processes are best
for the community and how they are to be implemented for the
benefit of the community as a whole and the individuals living
in that community.

A community which adopts the most suitable democratic systems,

processes and mechanisms for its constituents, will lessen the
impact of poisonous personalities within the community. In the
end, good democracy will prevail over bad politics in any
community on the Democracy Spectrum.

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