New Hampshire Primaries: A Triumph of Extremes (Sort Of)
As many did on Tuesday night, I watched the New Hampshire primary results come in with baited breath. I had been swept up in the clever, heavyweight-champion-of-the- world tone of the coverage. Would the pundits prove to be correct? Would Trump and Sanders triumph over their competition...
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A Tale of Two Politicians: The Genesis of VoxVolo
Ralph Klein was a polarizing political figure in Alberta, Canada where he was Premier from 1992 through 2006. History will be kind to Ralph because with him, what you saw was what you got He was famous for pointing out...
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The VoxVolo Crowdfunding Campaign Ends
It has been a wild ride. After 60 days and over 600 visitors from 56 countries around the world, our VoxVolo crowdfunding campaign has come to an end. Sadly we are short of our goal. However, there is lots for which to be thankful...
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The Beautiful Metaphors of the Reichstag Dome
I was watching the always affable Rick Steves doing a show on Berlin, Germany and he introduced the beautiful metaphors of the modern Reichstag Dome. Completed in 1999 and designed by Foster and Partners of London, it sits atop the historic Reichstag building where the modern German parliament — the Bundestag — meets. The new dome replaced the heavy, opaque structure destroyed by fire in 1933 in the midst of a much darker period of German history. The soaring new dome, almost literally rising from the ruins, embodies three visual metaphors which I find particularly striking...
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On What Planet Will Politicians Want To Be More Accountable?
Not this one. Maybe on Mars? I hear we are going there. But as soon as that first Martian colony of two or more is established and some sort of social order is set up, you can be sure that promises will get made and the argument will begin about whether they were kept or not. Making, keeping and breaking promises is intrinsic to human nature. The first casualty...
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If We Want to Use Technology to Renew Democracy, We're Starting in the Wrong Place
The way we democratically govern ourselves doesn’t make sense. If we are seriously contemplating getting into a car that doesn’t have a driver, for heaven's sake, why on earth would we govern ourselves with a system that has not fundamentally changed in a century or more? It seems preposterous...
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About VoxVolo
VoxVolo is about making elected governments work better. Unlike others, we do not think democracy is profoundly broken. It simply has not scaled up well for the number of voters it now serves and in how it addresses the complex issues of the modern world.
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