Hello Tom, After quickly reading over the Chagora FAQ I have to say I don't understand why you think it would change anything. I can easily make donations to various projects (political or otherwise) both large and small. I can engage in networked communications using a panoply of existing tools. My current reading of our situation is that money (along with market fundamentalism) is a cause of much of our problems. I see money as an outdated tool, a primitive form of information technology which facilitates corrupt behavior. It tends to get used in the same manner as violence - if a little doesn't solve your problem then use more! You are, like modern financiers, using high-tech tools (digital IT) to manage a low-tech one (money) when the productive thing to do is replace the old with the new. Applying peer production processes (i.e. those without markets or money that empower individuals to directly shape outcomes) to governance would be a meaningful change. Simply tweaking how our representational hierarchy is maintained is not. -Karl