Good Government Is Super-Exponential

We just finished running the global voting contest for the inaugural Future Vision XPRIZE, which drew more than 600,000 votes from over 1,000 cities in more than 100 countries.

It gave us a close look at how the XPRIZE team evaluates promising ideas. Two of CEO Anousheh Ansari's guidelines stood out:

• Will it leverage and drive exponential innovation, not incremental?
• Will it have an outsized impact, reaching a billion or more people?

So we asked ourselves too: Is improving how we organize as a society an exponential problem? Is improving how we make collective decisions?

At SIV, we're building a safe foundational layer for the democracy of the future.

Governments at their best build infrastructure everyone else can build on.

Roads and highways are the canonical example: millions of businesses run on top of this shared delivery network. Countless other infrastructure layers have enabled whole industries to grow on top of them.

If government itself worked well, social innovators and entrepreneurs could build the critical infrastructure that gets thousands of new industries off the ground.

That's why good government isn't merely exponential, but super-exponential: it enables exponentials on top of exponentials.

A safe, easy, and fast decision-making process for the Information Age can unlock vastly better forms of representative democracy, which in turn can have an outsized impact on the world.