Welcome to the Deliberative Democracy VCC. We intend to a) design new approaches to governance that will be able to match the complexity of the modern world and serve the interests of we the people as a whole, b) experiment with those new approaches, and c) work to adopt those approaches that prove to work well. Democracy R&D has already demonstrated the effectiveness of the "Democratic Lottery" process for the legislative function via approximately 1000 experiments with counties, cities and national governments. We are just beginning to work on the executive and judicial functions but they also need to be redesigned if we are to have truly effective and democratic governance.
[Apr. 16, 2023] News: The Deliberative Democracy VCC is under construction. Visit again soon to see the progress.
[Apr. 21, 2026] SlaveryToday VCC opened: The "Fighting Modern Slavery VCC" has been initialized and is open now.
[Apr. 19, 2026] Earth Energy Imbalance is Increasing Rapidly: Finally the extreme increase in the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is slowly starting to make headlines - far too late, though. The article “ What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?” by Jonathan Watts published in the Guardian explains some of the basics. Importantly, the EEI double within only 13 years. In another article by Watts also in the Guardian and titled “ Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high” the author points out that the World Meteorological Organization warned that Earth is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming the oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies. Considering that Earth is more like a pool house with a very large pool than a greenhouse, the ocean is only delaying the heating of the atmosphere but not preventing it.
