The broad mission of the site is to enhance democracy by improving the quality and frequency of political activity using fun and efficient tech solutions.
The broad mission of the Digital Citizen site will be to inspire, empower, and inform citizens to become more active in political issues and find greater ease of access to participation in democratic governance. While Facebook is the prime example of a successful social networking site, there are niche networking needs that have yet to be fulfilled. Digital Citizen will do for political networking what LinkedIn has done for professional social networking. LinkedIn created a social network within a professional context and was designed to meet a niche demand that helped users connect based on work experience, educational background, and job search/recruitment efforts. The company started in 2002 and as of 2013 has gone global, gaining 225 million members, with over 2 new members joining per second (LinkedIn, 2015). Digital Citizen will be a social network that meets the specific needs of people wishing to connect in a political context. Everyone is affected by politics if they live as part of a society, thus the potential market for a tool such as this reaches even more people than the market for LinkedIn. Like the other successful SNSs (Social Networking Site), Digital Citizen has the power to connect people in a unique way which can produce social changes for political betterment. This goal will be achieved by creating a host of online political access tools, as well as unifying many of the existing political access resources that have already proven effective but are scattered about the internet.
Currently, social media networking is not very well suited to political debate an
d organization. While great strides have been made in public political communication as a result of social network proliferation, much of that communication is limited to 250 character insults and clever quips. Rates of voter turnout and public involvement in political issues are low, and high participation rates are essential to having a strong democratic society. By helping users discover the truth about their own political views via an account creation questionnaire, express their views in a safe online debate environment, quickly research legislative actions or politician profiles, participate in writing legislative text, contribute their knowledge to a wiki, organize events with shared calendars, create polls and petitions, help draft laws, and so much more, this site can make political participation of the future much more efficient and fun. One might call it “Digital Citizenship”.
Digital Citizen – Mission.Features.Development Plans
Digital Citizen 