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Determine who runs for office, who gets elected, and what laws are passed — using the time-tested tools of Swiss direct democracy, now available globally.
Welcome voters from every nation. Membership is free. Create your profile, describe your priorities, and connect with like-minded voters to build the democratic future you want.
Global reach. Connect with voters across nation-state frontiers who share your priorities and face similar challenges.
Voting blocs. Form online political parties, voting blocs, and electoral coalitions free from party doctrine.
Direct tools. Conduct initiatives, referendums, petitions, and recall votes using the network's Voting Utility.
Fact Checker. Distinguish facts from misinformation during consensus-building dialogues.
The steps below describe how voters worldwide will use historic Swiss direct democracy practices when the network is fully operational. Follow the path from joining the network to forging cross-national coalitions.
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Welcome to the network! You can join free of charge by creating your home page and profile with a sign-in username and password.
As a member, you can use direct democracy information and messaging tools free of charge to connect to like-minded voters. Define and share your priorities and legislative agendas, and collaborate to enact them.
Join forces to create online political parties, voting blocs, and electoral coalitions. Build consensus across partisan lines, bridge divides, and determine who runs for office, who gets elected, and what laws are passed.
Network services include conducting initiatives and referendums, as the Swiss have done for centuries. Access the network's Fact Checker and Voting Utility to cast votes on a variety of proposals.

Express your views, define your priorities, and create your own legislative agendas.
Save and share your priorities selectively, privately, and confidentially with individuals and groups you choose. Four methods are available:
(1) Describe priorities in your own words and set your own legislative agendas. (2) Search the network priorities database and select those that match your own. (3) View priorities of network members who share them anonymously. (4) Choose from priorities of parties, voting blocs, and coalitions hosted on the network.

Connect to other network members to set common legislative agendas around shared priorities.
Actively participate in collective efforts to build consensus across partisan lines. Conduct online dialogues and debates, and reconcile divergent perspectives and objectives.
Clarify your priorities and show how they resemble and diverge from others'. Use the network's Fact Checker to distinguish facts from misinformation.
At any point, vote online to determine which priorities to include in common legislative agendas, using the network's Voting Utility.

Collaborate with like-minded network members who share your legislative priorities to take advantage of the network's political organizing tools.
Transform your personal networks into voting blocs and host and co-manage them on the network. Together, utilize the network's direct democracy tools and services to carry out tasks vital to fully functioning democracies.
Your blocs can function uniquely online, or operate outside the network in forms chosen by the members. They can join existing blocs, parties, and coalitions, or work independently.

Merge your voting blocs with political parties and coalitions hosted on the network to build consensus across partisan lines and increase your electoral base.
Form your own political parties and electoral coalitions — organized informally as temporary ad hoc alliances, or registered officially with local governmental election agencies to fully participate in electoral processes.
Since members can freely define their priorities without regard to doctrine or ideology, parties and coalitions can adhere exclusively to the decisions of their members.

Evaluate and nominate electoral candidates of your choice, rather than be limited to choosing among candidates already on the ballot — a beneficial reversal of traditional practices.
Collaborate with network members to identify and evaluate prospective candidates in depth according to criteria of your choosing. Scrutinize candidates' prior activities, votes, and priorities to evaluate alignment with your own.
Conduct online interviews with prospective candidates to evaluate first-hand whether they appear likely to be consensus-builders who will reach across partisan divides.

Laws, rules, and regulations for placing candidates on election ballots vary widely and can be cumbersome. Some complications result from deliberate efforts to obstruct competitive electoral races.
Large numbers of election experts who are network members will share their expertise to ensure free and fair elections.
One of the most important steps is planning ahead and constantly monitoring changes in official election laws and procedures, to ensure your candidates' names appear on official primary ballots.

A strategically important key to winning elections is raising funds to finance campaigns that enable you to reach as many voters as possible. Seek funding from sources inside and outside the network.
Billions of dollars are raised and spent during every election cycle. A variety of communication channels can direct such funds to your campaigns.
Increasing numbers of politically engaged individuals, groups, and organizations are devoting their energy and donations to strengthening democratic electoral and legislative processes and institutions.

Actively participate in post-election decision-making in all branches of government, using direct democracy tools provided by the network.
Conduct petition drives, referendums, initiatives, and recall votes. Publicize results and use them to transmit written mandates to decision-makers during all phases of governmental decision-making.
These mandates will reflect the needs and demands of the public and their constituents. Your demonstrated capability to determine election outcomes will prompt decision-makers to heed your demands.

Join with network members to design and implement life-preserving policies and plans, such as curbing climate disruption and devising common peace-making plans worldwide.
Connect online with network members across nation-state frontiers to collaborate on peace-making plans to resolve confrontations and conflicts worldwide. Voters in different countries often experience similar needs and crises, even when their governments disagree.
Use network agenda-setting, political organizing, and electoral tools to create common fronts to induce lawmakers to enact common peace-making plans, within and across frontiers.
Centuries ago, Alpine dwellers invented Switzerland's Direct Democracy, according Swiss citizens political sovereignty. These time-tested practices — initiatives, referendums, recall votes — have empowered Swiss voters for centuries. DDGN brings these tools to voters worldwide.
Geneva's Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote treatises in the 18th century prescribing conditions for exercising political sovereignty — and preserving it.
Empowering voters worldwide to exercise their historical political sovereignty, and determine who runs for office, who gets elected, and what laws are passed.