Our Town Hall is a work-in-progress and always will be. We will constantly improve on it with features that everyone decides on. As of now, we are limited in both time and financial resources so are building the democratic basics first.

• Allowing citizens to register
• Adding all of the almost 100,000 local electoral communities (“town halls”) which we are sequencing in priority by those people who register. Want your community included faster? Register yourself and it will happen faster!
• Installing the critical core features that allow people to add in ideas, comment and discuss those ideas, debate those ideas, improve on those ideas, and ultimately vote on those ideas. Engagement of the citizens in a community is the critical component that brings democracy to life.

Keep in mind that this is not merely an online platform or app. The app is merely an effort to automate democracy itself. We can build the online tool, but it is up to you what you do with it. It is up to you to use it to build your community — and that you have to do together. That is how the power of democracy works.

You can start now. You can register yourself and start talking with your neighbors and engage them to join you. Democracy is a team game.

THE EXAMPLE

We are deploying this in our own community — The Front of Yonge Township in Eastern Ontario Canada. This is not just the test site for our platform, it is the test site for engaging communities to embrace the power of democracy itself in building our future together.

Our mission is to have our Town Hall work for us and actually deliver on the decisions we make ourselves together. Through engaging in democracy among all our neighbors.

We are running a full slate of candidates in our next election. Covering all five positions in our Town Council. The goal is to have the Our Town Hall app implemented as the decision mechanism for everything that our Town Hall does.

Our local platform only consists of one item: Give all the power to the people. And have the faith that they will make every right decision on every other issue from there. Our bet is that they will get it right every single time.

We will keep you posted both through the app as well as on the page of this website that is dedicated to that purpose. We will all learn together as we take the steps forward to taking our own power. We will share our successes. And we will learn from our mistakes. Together.

A NEW JOB DESCRIPTION FOR COUNCIL

We're rewriting the job description for local government. The council's role isn't to decide for us in private, but to facilitate and implement the clear consensus we build together in public. Their mandate comes directly from us.

Politicians don't have all the ideas—the community does. The Our Town Hall app brings the people together to deliver those ideas.

We are putting this basic democratic principle into action in our own Township. We hope to set an example for every community. And we absolutely hope other communities embrace their freedom to decide how their communities evolve through democratic consensus.

We are done with this “system” we have ruling over us. Telling us what is best for us. We will rule ourselves … because democracy only works when we do that.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

The next steps are up to you. You can decide to bring all the freedom and power to build your own community with your neighbors just like we are in ours. We will give you the tools — but you need to use them.

Should you take the step to empower the freedom of democracy in your community, we will be happy to collaborate with you. To share our successful actions and to share in our mistakes. We can all learn together. We will cheer each other on. And we can all build our futures together.

First, register your voice in our app. It’s free and simple.

Then, start using your voice. Introduce yourself to your neighbors. Talk with them. We are convinced that the absolute majority of them are totally fed up with our current system of governance. The majority are fed up with the corruption. The majority are fed up with the moneyed influence of lobby groups and special interests. The majority have ideas they actually want to share. The majority wants to be heard.

So … start having those discussions.

Now you have a place to build your community together. Talk them into joining you to chart the future of your community on our app. That is why we built it.

Encourage them to participate and bring even more of your neighbors on-board. Have them post their ideas. Have them post their complaints. Have them join in the discussions on the issues your own community has. Let them have their say. Give them the power of their own self-determination.

How can they not love you for that? You are giving them the tools to get the freedom that we all crave.

And — by the way — as you do take these simple few steps, you will find a new vibrant energy of community start to rise in your community. That alone is worth the effort. You will all get to know each other. You will be starting to build your community together. That is your common ground — all of you want to be free.

You will feel the changes happen quickly. You will be able to measure your success. It will be measured in the smiles your neighbors give each other on a daily basis. You will feel the success of your efforts.

Keep in mind that we are all different as individuals. Respect that. Take comfort that we all want our communities to be free and at peace. That is the common ground we all share. Have the faith that your neighbors will get every single issue right from there. They will.

Free people — working together — is how communities get built and thrive.

Take the power you have in your own community. Unite with your neighbors and embrace the true power of democracy to chart the path forward to the community you all want. And we can all do this together — because that is the true power of democracy.

The 1% does not have that power. We — the people — do.

Power to the People.

NOTE: The Our Town Hall app is currently designed to be functional across Canada and the USA. Yes — it can expand to other nations. However, we only possess a familiarity with the electoral structures of Canada and the USA so would need guidance to incorporate communities beyond. And — ultimately — we hope it will.