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Executive Summary:

We are building the seamless, compelling and easy social platform for civic engagement.

Opportunity:

A significant opportunity exists today that encompasses a vast demographic. Our social platform will address millions of social network (ie.- Facebook) users who are frustrated with privacy issues and advertising plus millions more who are disenfranchised by the current post-”Citizens United” political landscape.

Social Media Users with

Privacy Concerns

Frustrated Citizens

Issue-based

Advocates

With an easy to use, visually-compelling, privacy-protected social network at the core -we will be integrating open source components that will allow people to evolve beyond the use of electronic petitions to creating law, policy, voting and prioritizing local, state and federal budgets.

The civ.works Solution:

The civ.works community will include people that are presently frustrated by constant changes in privacy settings for existing social platforms, advocates that create or respond to electronic petitions and those looking for more influence in the political process.

Audience:

At approximately 60,000 subscribed users we expect to reach viability (will no longer need to rely upon grants or donations) to afford operating, development and research resources.

This is based upon a monthly subscription fee of $2.99 for users that subscribe to the service and includes approximately 35% of the accounts to be free for academic users (.edu email domain).

Viability:

60,000 Subscriberswill provide Viability

Start with core early adopters (invite-only to build demand ie -ello and Google gmail success)

Use invitation demand, referrals, earned media and social media to achieve subscriber mass and scale.

Marketing Strategy:

Founding Team:

Golda Velez, Chief Architect

You don't have to be a rocket scientist but it helps. Golda began software engineering at Jet Propulsion Laboratory while completing her academic study at Caltech in Mathematics. She has since worked for Factual, Oracle and others major enterprises and start-ups directing complex projects, programs and teams.

Adam Lake, Network/Outreach

Adam has been working on issues related to civic cooperation, empowerment and engagement since emerging from Virginia Tech. He is a disruptor of the conventional and his concepts, ideas and vision continue to shape the civ.works concept.

George A. Polisner, Founder

George has spent the last several years of addressing highly-complex conceptual technological and economic challenges for government, large enterprise and society. He remains active and engaged in socio-economic and environmental justice, participatory democracy and budgeting, transparency and accountability in governance and he has significant experience in corporate social behavior (CSR) and addressing externalities.

Visual Platform Direction/User Experience:

User Activity Dashboard

User Profile & privacy controls

Status/ Newsfeed

Democracy

OS

Participatory Budgeting

Seamlessly navigate through your dashboard, profile and newsfeed, and track your voting, events, and participation

User Profile:

User Profile (similar to facebook -user controls who can see what information) work, education, favorite organizations and causes, books, films, societal heroes, tags/keywords of interest (helps weight feed relevance, friends, groups and photo albums).

Activity Dashboard:

User Activity Dashboard(We will encourage engagement through gamification/competition)

● Participation Trends● Content Shared● Votes/Polling● Petitions● Democracy OS● Participatory Budgeting

“You have 6 active campaigns”

“You have voted 27 times this week”

“You have 12 new group members in your campaign”

“Karli J. posted a photo of you : ‘Love this pic from the SpeakOut event on Saturday!’”

“You have 3 new event invitations”

Standard Newsfeed: Can anyone tell me how to get an initiative on the ballot in Massachusetts?

Here’s the latest article on restrictive voter ID laws from Public Citizen. www.pubcit.com/voterID

Any other moms out there who are interested in meeting up about the new traffic laws in Dover?

Rally tonight at Gerald Park for our Firefighters! Come and show your support at 7pm!

Click here to learn about the ballot initiative process in Massachusetts

6 friends are attendingAdd to your events

Democracy OS Pages:

What is Democracy OS?Democracy OS is a web-based platform for civic engagement that is going to be used around the world. Democracy OS allows users to share information and debate on important public policies, and then vote on the issues they care about.

How Does it Work? Representatives and local law-makers can connect directly to voters to get your input on important matters. This allows our law-makers to make our government more representational and allows your voice to be heard.

Sample of Democracy OS Online Demo / Taken from democracyos.org

By connecting civ.works with Democracy OS, users can have a seamless 360 degree view of their civic engagement.

Participatory Budgeting:

What is Participatory Budgeting?Participatory budgeting invites citizens to have a say in how your local government or other organizations allocate spending.

How Does it Work? Local governments and organizations set aside a certain amount of funds and allow citizens to vote on how those funds are used. Participatory budgeting is being used in over 1500 cities worldwide, and is being used by New York City Council and Toronto’s Public Housing Authority.

civ.works: the platform for civic engagment

Thank you for considering to be a part of the future of democracy and engagement.

civ.works is coming.