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Nowadays the social problems are solving by governmental, nongovernmental institutions and political parties. Unfortunately in most cases there is conflict between institutional and political parties’ interest from one hand and society as a whole from other hand. As a result most decisions are badly biased in fever of decision-makers. Very often they are no effective, counterproductive and even destructive for society. This is valid for decisions made on all levels from climate change, nuclear proliferation and regional conflicts to national and local issues. Society is looser and need an alternative and independent mechanism for decision-making. This site is an attempt to offer such opportunity.

The idea is independent self-selected according their expertise people to collaborate based on formal psychological model for solving problems. In this way will be created virtual network of people resembling human brain and mind. The people who assemble virtual social network collaborating to resolve social problems could be called netocrats, Hence – Netocrats’ Virtual Mind or NetsMind.

Netocrats’ virtual mind (or NetsMind) is a Virtual Brain and Mind Project based in London with mission to facilities this process on all levels – global, regional, national and local.

Our mission is to present platform, infrastructure and resources to crate community of self-selected people, with expertise to contribute in solving variety of social problems. The final solution should be made in favour of society as a whole, not particular group of people. In other words solutions will be independent and morally based.

Those solutions will be “second opinion” of society, and:

• will be corrective to institutionally made decisions;
• will generate new ideas;
• will facilitate the exchange of positive experience among communities;
• will allow fast introduction to various problems for people not so familiar with them;
• will increase social activity and creativity.

Second opinion is broadly accepted in medical practice and successfully used for ages. In field of politics second opinion usually offer rival political party in opposition. However this opinion is also politically biased. Therefore society needs truly independent decision-making and problem-solving mechanism.

To crate such mechanism, the cardinal problem is structuring and modeling of social creativity. There are software programs for decision-making in corporate environment. Decision-making process however is routine process to choose one among number of possible, but well-known alternatives.

Solving-problem is a process, which generate new information. It is truly creative process. There is no algorithm for creativity. Theory of social creativity is still in its infancy. Nevertheless a formal model describing solving-problems creative process emerges and hopefully could facilitate web-based collaboration. In this way the circle of participants in problem-solving process, or netocrats expands enormously, covering entire world.

The formal model for solving problems consist of six stages and many internal steps. It is designed to solve very complicated social problems and not all steps should be followed strictly in case of more simple issues. The model could be seen on our project page). Working with this model is very simple task. The contributor should present his/her thoughts according to models' format. If on certain stage or step text is already written, it should be edit in the spirit of improvement. Opposed opinions will be discussed separately in designate page openly and transparently and resolved with consent. Alternatively two scenarios will be elaborated and verified in practice. In this way all contributors will structured one single document, which will lead to resolving existing problem.

No doubt:

• Firstly, newly born virtual brain and mind at the very beginning will be more or less like baby’s brain and mind, charming, but not so capable to solve any significant social problem. To do that virtual brain and mind should grow up and mature. For this reason the first steps will be more difficult until participants, contributors or netocrats expand to level of “critical mass”. At this point all independent decisions will have significant impact on society.

• Secondly, implementation of decisions in social practice at the beginning will be very difficult, partly because of luck of political will and perhaps due to deliberately opposition of nowadays official decision-makers. Guess why.

• Thirdly, nevertheless in foreseeable future most important social decisions will be made or influenced through netocratic mechanism of collaboration and implemented by national and international institutions. In this way NetsMind will resemble a judicial system - most important decisions are made by juries and the judges implement the verdicts.

• Fourthly, in long term inevitably decision-making process in social practice will be separated by implementation, because this is only way to beat corruption of politicians and bureaucrats. After all society will transit from democracy to netocracy i.e. self-governing society.

For more info regarding Netocracy see - http://www.netocracy.org.uk