One World Government

Posted by admin on Nov 12th, 2009 | 0 comments

Welcome to One World Government.

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I have been affiliated for several years with the Vote World Government initiative involving Internet voting on a global referendum now asking the question: “Do you support the creation of a directly-elected, representative and democratic world parliament that is authorized to legislate on global issues?” Currently we have gathered in excess of 10,000 votes, and we are running better than 90% “Yes” to the referendum question.

A world government and a world parliament are actually very similar and complementary concepts. Simply put a Government runs a country. From a global perspective, one could say that the United Nations is kind of a world government. The problem with this is that there isn’t a law-making parliament which is elected by the people of the world. Sure there is the general assembly – but these positions are appointed, not elected. And of course – the biggest anti-democratic aspect of the United Nations is the Security Council – made up of the victors of World War II who each have a Veto power vote as regards to any type of referendum which the General Assembly might want passed.

Back on the nation state scale, Parliament is responsible for keeping an eye on what the Government is doing, it checks out and debates each of the laws that the Government wants to change or create. Parliament represents the poeple, however government runs the country and is elected by the people. Parliament is like the United States’ Congress, so Parliament is part of government.

A world parliament is, in my opinion, what the world needs now in order to address supranational issues like the elimination of war, the protection of basic human rights, and the protection of the environment, all areas which are beyond the effective jurisdiction of the nation-state. There is no term like “one world government,” however, that strikes a shuddering chord in the souls of conservatives (especially here in the USA), or fundamentalist Christians. On this religious side, both Christianity and Islam see this religious idea of  “one world government” as “beyond human” and the wished for “end-game” of their lives.

Let’s step outside of religion for a moment and consider matters from the basic secular view of solving the world’s major problems. We desperately need, in my opinion, a governing body which is democratic (the United Nations has never been democratic), wholly transparent (think digital fishbowl, in which everybody can see everything), with hundreds of duly-elected (think representative democracy)  world parliament members, all elected in free and open elections by their constituents, to legislate on issues beyond the scope of individual nations, without taking any bit of sovereignty away from individual nation states which is justifiably theirs. Basically, take the power to consensually run the world by giving this power to the people of the world.  To me it makes perfect sense, and I rather expect that the rest of the world – or most of us, will see things this way once we’ve considered the matter. 

To a vast majority of people, as you will find out going through popular culture via the videos, articles, and chatter within this website – you will see a different perspective.  Take for instance the video featuring Walter Cronkite, in which a “YouTube uploader” took the quote he states out of context. Urrgh – this infuriates me!

If you have an interest, purchase the Rescue Plan book at the top right. Then make up your own mind. We can continue on with an ineffective United Nations or become active in the pursuit of constructive change for a more just, peaceful world. I have chosen the second course of action. How about you?

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Government Services Through Live Chat

Posted by admin on Sep 3rd, 2010 | 0 comments

The 20th century has seen advances made by man surpassing the development of the centuries before it. Science and technology, governance and the philosophy of civilization has undergone a marked transformation. The public sector is a world in itself, with the management of 4 billion people in the world; governments have their hands full, providing everything to the population from utilities to services and healthcare.

Support for Citizens

Organizations and departments belonging to government are responsible for the delivery of all services received by a citizen. The supply of water, power, food stock, the building of infrastructure, and the administration of justice and just about anything one can think of is the responsibility of the governments that administer us.

Departmentalization means responsibilities for delivery are delegated to government agencies and departments, and these departments are responsible to the citizens whom they serve and the representatives of public administration.

A few examples of such departments, under their various ministries, are;

The department of corrections. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Civil services. Sanitation departments. National power grids.Etc

As is inevitable, citizens have business to conduct every day with these departments, from getting your passport made to making complaints to the sanitation department or getting a permit from the FD for a bonfire. Every day hundreds of thousands of people approach the government for a multitude of reasons and most have to wait for hours in a queue simply waiting to exercise their rights as citizens or call and wait by a phone, conceivably for hours, before they can speak to anyone. It is about time that advancements in internet technology are focused upon improving the quality of life for all citizens in general.

A similar model to commercial web chat support

Since the mid-nineties, most government agencies have set up resource websites for the delivery of information to citizens, instead of having the vast crowd approaching government offices for small proposes. The next obvious step in this type of Citizen Service is live chat support.

The commercial web has turned to live chat in a big way. With website customer support agents proactively approaching interested visitors, and behaving as website stewards/ salespersons/ after sales support persons etc. The same concept applies in nearly the same way for government agencies, especially those which have a huge amount of inquiries from a never ending flow of internet traffic. These inquiries are received/ answered normally by post, phone, Fax or e-mail; which is a time consuming process, with hundreds of agents processing hundreds of thousands of inquiries and requests every day. It would be a simpler solution to implement chat support, where each agent, trained and well versed in any manner of government business, working for any government agency can handle the work in real time.

Citizens would come onto a website and almost immediately get in touch with an agent via a small browser chat window. Agents would be able to handle multiple citizens at the same time, a feature in multitasking unique to chat and impossible with post or phone. This would also reduce the government department’s customer service cost. Agents would be able to redirect confused or lost citizens to the correct webpage instantly, or transfer them to a superior agent or department officer if such is required. Citizens would feel personally and individually served by polite and amicable chat agents, and pre writing and stored messages would mean the passage of standardized information to everyone. The public would have a convenient chat-stop for any inquiries or to set appointments or seek advice, potentially 24-7, wherever they are in the world. Government offices/ telephone services would be subject to lower congestion and less maintenance costs. The service would provide citizens of all ages the opportunity to learn computer and internet usage.

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