Thinking out of the box: Dynamic Democracy and CarrotMob

If you want to present at this meetup, please contact me (xdamman on twitter or gmail).

Micah Daigle (@micahdaigle (http://twitter.com/micahdaigle)) is the founder of Dynamic Democracy, a movement to upgrade the way large groups of people make decisions together and fix our broken political system. He sees a future where, instead of electing politicians to represent us on every issue, we delegate our decision-making power to people we trust on specific topics. The group has a plan to prototype this system and launch it at college campuses and within organizations, where it can be tested in a small environment before scaling up to city governments.

Brent Schulkin (@schulkin (http://twitter.com/schulkin)) is the Founder of Carrotmob (@carrotmob (http://twitter.com/carrotmob)). A Carrotmob is the opposite of a boycott. It's a new way for people to change businesses.

In a Carrotmob campaign, businesses compete for who is willing to take the most socially-beneficial action, and then a network of consumers spends money to support the winning business. The Carrotmob movement has spread around the world with over 130 small-scale campaigns, from liquor stores in SF, to nightclubs in Helsinki, to bubble tea stands in Singapore. Now we're planning to build a technology platform, aggregate tens of millions of people, and apply the same principle to change the largest companies in the world.