The Dome of Conscience

This is the Dome of Conscience for the Parliaments of Australia. You can find it at www.domeaus.com. It is part of the website www.domevote.com which includes the objectives, history and endorsements from public figures and people of influence. 

Window into the Parliaments

The Dome of Conscience is a live scoreboard of issues before the parliaments. The first thing you see as you enter the Dome is a single integrated voice of all participating parliamentarians across the country. With a click you can also see the collective voice of each parliament, each party and the separate voices of the upper and lower houses. None of these integrated voices has been seen before. The Dome also shows which issues and opinions are foremost in the minds of each participating parliamentarian.

How the Dome works

The Dome uses the BigPulse polling invention. It works like a continuous, transparent and competitive "Opinion Market" – an idea inspired originally by the way financial markets work. There are no questions, surveys or pollsters. Any parliamentarian can float a new opinion in the virtual voting chamber any time. Opinions are expressed as concise single line statements called "placards". All opinion placards compete continuously for votes from parliamentarians and are ranked live in the leaderboard for all to see. 

In this forum all parliamentarians have equal control over the voting agenda and all can speak at the same time, expressing many different points of view. Yet a single representative group voice is visible at all times and understood at a glance.

Voting

To vote click the check box of up to ten placards then click "Submit Vote".  Your vote is counted immediately. You are encouraged to return any time and vote again to update your position or reaffirm your last vote. Your last vote is always visible and only your last vote is counted in the tally so repeat voting never corrupts the vote.

Repeat voting

Repeat voting is encouraged and never causes vote stacking as the system counts the last vote only for each forum member.

Voting is transparent

Click the opinion placards to see who voted for them. Click the "Who's Voting" link to see the names of all parliamentarians registered to vote, sorted by date of last vote.

Submitting new opinion placards

To submit a new opinion placard click the “Submit New Opinion” button. New placards are published immediately so take care. The forum manager, BigPulse.com,  will remove any placards considered inappropriate and correct minor errors. The name of the placard author is suppressed and new placards start with no votes. This means you can submit placards that you don't want to vote for. If you do want to vote for placards you submit remember to add them to your vote selection after submitting them then click “Submit Vote” to update your vote. You can submit as many placards as you want.

Post your speeches

Click the icons on the far right of each placard to post your speeches and debate.

Vote filters

Notice the vote filters above the opinion leaderboard to the right.  Use these to see votes from each parliament, the upper and lower houses and the parties or all independent votes.

A global initiative

As the Dome becomes a working tool in the parliaments of Australia the idea will inevitably spread to other parliaments in other countries.

About the name

The "Dome" is a common structure over places of great respect. The US congress has a famous dome. Our own conscience sits under a dome! Of course "conscience" comes from conscience vote. 

The Dome-ocracy of mass enlightenment!