Internship: Unite the Climate Movement with Civil Democracy! Do you dream of a world where the climate movement speaks with one powerful voice? The Civil Democracy Movement is a pioneering model of democracy designed to empower social movements like the fight against climate change. We’re building a platform that unites diverse voices for collective decision-making. […]

Financial corruption in politics is a significant challenge today. Historically, intertwining money and power has often led to ethical breaches and undermined democratic principles and public trust. Today, financial corruption persists in various forms, from campaign finance loopholes over revolving doors between government and industry to offshore tax havens that obscure beneficiaries of political transactions. […]

Are you used in addressing foundations? Are you yourself working for a foundation, or in contact with one? There are many wealthy individuals who have set up foundations working for the aims Civil democracy is able to address. So far, our approach is always too large to fit in existing funding schemes. But you may […]

1.            Civil democracy works like a very special bank account Civil democracy is like a bank account on which you and everyone else receive the same “income” of one vote for every decision to be made in your name. Any upcoming decision is always a decision between several options, and you can “sponsor” several options […]

Can the Internet contribute to improving political processes? This question initially sounds “so 1990s” – perhaps one would have liked to ask it in the 1990s, when the Internet was still new. But that was the time when people tinkered in garages to become billionaires, and we didn’t have a lot of the experience we […]

Civil democracy brochure How climate change, migration and populism relate to Christianity — and what we can do. It seems that we are currently in a vicious circle: migration is driven by climate change, among other things, but it also feeds populism. This in turn makes it even more difficult to take action against climate […]

Can the internet improve politics? As the question scarcely been discussed by the “classic” texts on internet and politics of the 1990s, it is asked now in light of the experiences since. Question and answer are structured in five steps: (1) Politics is about counting, ever more, and the web is good in counting. (2) […]

The one-pager Besides the posts here on the blog, see the one-page description of Civil democracy and the Global Sustainability Council.                                                         The brochure The next level of entry is […]

Just shortly need to save the world / before I take the flight to you / have to check 148 mails / who knows what happens next / because it happens so much / Just shortly have to save the world / right afterwards I’m back with you… These song lines by Tim Bendzko (2011, […]

The book starts with an understanding of the way in which we got into the current problems. Having a problem is having something to do: so it is about the possibilities to shape the world and the decisions that are necessary for doing so. And it is about the „we“, hence the structure of human […]

Civil democracy is an improved type of democracy that uses the technology of the 21st century to tackle the challenges of democracy in the 21st century. Its core is the flexible storage of trust that allows every political actor to take responsibility and every voter to decide for every decision whether to express their democratic […]

Civil democracy is powerful, it is a solution which brings problems into a solution-oriented setting involving as many individuals as possible, and its complexities can be handled. Civil democracy is however a systemic solution that demands a large number of different actors to align to a new concept of interaction. No actor alone can start it. […]