zeroglab

Research project dealing with E-democracy.

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E-democracy

The term E-democracy is both descriptive and prescriptive. Typically, the kinds of enhancements sought by proponents of e-democracy are framed in terms of making processes more accessible; making citizen participation in public policy decision-making more expansive and direct so as to enable broader influence in policy outcomes as more individuals involved could yield smarter policies; increasing transparency and accountability; and keeping the government closer to the consent of the governed, thereby increasing its political legitimacy. E-democracy includes within its scope electronic voting, but has a much wider span than this single aspect of the democratic process.
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D.L.S.I.
Decorative Law System Implants
Plug-In citystate with alien jurisprudence system.

2000, Dessau, Germany

Concept for law system implant to alter the micro economical climate.
Geographical considerations are playing no role here. It can lay in Holland, or Hungary, anywhere. The location is picked based on aerial esthetics. Larger national states may apply nice silhouettes of one or even more foreign countries with a legal constitution as a repeating pattern. It is rather a decorative art work. Think about a tattoo of several houndred or thousand meters.

The very idea was presented in the year 2000 to Mr. Schröder, the bundeskanzellar of Germany and to the Finnish minister president, Mr. Lipponen, as they visited the Bauhaus Foundation in

Dessau. This visit took place after a tragic event which had happened in the quiet Dessau. A German citizen, an emigrant from Mozambique was killed by neonazis in 2000.Dessau is a medium sized Ex-DDR Ex-Heavy-industrial German town of the small federal state of Anhalt. The official unemployment rate is cca. 45%.

Camouflaged military suits are popular amongst the youth here. One of the larger new architectural development projects in the city where a shopping mall and the large office for the
unemployed of Dessau (Arbeitsamt). The tourists who visit the historical Bauhaus building complex are an important source of income for the town.
Some elements of the implant concept are already presentin Dessau. One can buy cigarettes for the half prize from Vietnamese emigrants, smuggled from The Ukraine. It is illegal, but very popular at certain areas in Dessau where the unemployment is high. The same day after my presentation to Mr. Schröder, I have seen, the Vietnamese where being held by the financial police, the next day they where back in business, selling cheap cigarettes.

While ethically it is very questionable, this very concept is working already for a long time, in the form of offshore banking and tax harbors, like on the Cayman Islands, or Curacao and Aruba.
Many major multinationals and high income individuals are practically paying no tax in theircountry of activity. A similar implant concept has been used in The Peoples Republic of China. It has been the engine behind the booming economy around the Shanghai, and other special economical areas. Hungary has an agreement with Slovenia to use a small part of its territory as Hungarian sea harbor for trade.

Zeroglab is going to examin the possibilities to implement such system in The Netherlands. There are vast agricultural areas in Holland which are covered with cow dung & B.S. These farms are driven by heavy state subsidy. These areas can be recycled using D.L.S.I. Systems.
First presented at Bauhaus/Dessau/GDR/2000
copyright 2000-2002 Károly Tóth

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