I decided to translate part of document in Croatian that talks about
TOP, as long as it is in focus of our current action. I suppose Markus
should post definition of TOP also to this group and we should look for
definitions on open-organisaions.org and simmilar stuff to get as good
grounds as we can in this moment for further discussions.
So, here is the first part:
About TOP
The idea of completely TOP (transparent, open, pubilc) political
interface where all participants have the direct aproach to all
informations relevant for their making of their political decisions (
it was not possible before ), interface that thanks to archieving of
all information enables backrouting for any wrong decision and
articualtes direct responsibility for political action. Full
transaprency and opennes of the political process means new basic
political paramethers, new paradigm of politics, we call TOP politics.
Now, I am going to elaborate on the meaning of these new principles.
Full transparency
Full transparency means transparent process of decision making based on
publicly reachable information. Every political body needs to have
clear mechanism of desicion making, that makes easy to articulate exact
responsibilty of every single participant. Every political move, using
TOP politics gets archived, so good or bad moves become permanently
reachable to the public.
This benchmark means that every single deed, including good ones become
permanent capital in someones political reputation. In the same time
every single wrong deed becomes permanent blur, so participants of the
top politics need to be much more carefull about doing actions that
might be wrong. The whole thing enables long term reputation building,
where full transparency enables full blessing of such investment.
To make comparison, todays political process can not enable profit
based on good deeds, as long as the lack of transparency does not
enable it. In the non transparent process that is going on the level of
the World, oportunistic moves are the ones that profilate political
elite. Wrong decisions or any other political deeds of individal
participants due to curtain of non transparency do not attach
proportional public support. Sadly, the same thing happens to good
deeds, which makes them be non popular for the ambitious ones.
The whole process of today becomes «loan shark» oriented, as long as
there is no mechanism that would protect long term investemnts, aka
good.
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There is the part about opennes, yet i do not find it fine enough to
post it right now, so i will make some adjustments first.
ATB,
Gale