Governatic

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DEFINITION: (in collective development)

In computer language, governatic defines the democratisation of set of tools designed for governance (management of all the resources and activities of a nation).

As a science, governatic defines research and development of the democratisation of management methods concerning public resources (natural resources, logistic tools and human resources).
- governatic is the activity which seeks to define and test the conditions of realization of the concept of democracy, and of its fundamental principles (for example: freedom, equality, fraternity). Its goal is to democratize democracy.

Governatic is built by the people, for its management, the collective definition of global interest. Governatic is then defined as the study and construction of tools for understanding sociological, territorial, and economic data, for analyzing, anticipating, and defining the public interest and development options.

« Governatic equity » is the state of democratic ideal toward which a democracy, and its rulers, tend, as their primary object and their political reason for being.

* Democracy is the political regime or, more broadly, a corpus of philosophical and political principles, in which the people is sovereign and elect the leaders.
> See the Wikipedia page: A panel of democracies.

Index of democracy: The British newspaper « The Economist » has created an index of democracy by examining 167 countries to qualitatively assess their level of democracy on a scale of 0 to 10. After having stagnated between the first score of 2006 and the second in 2008, democracy declined overall in 2010. France was demoted from 24th to 31st place, changing down, as Greece, to an imperfect democracy. Belgium has also demoted whereas Switzerland remained in its place, but both have lost points.

In the context of democratic sustainable development, or of informed democracy, voting is the tool which marks the foundation of governatic science from a legal point of view. However, governatic tools are pre-existing.

Philosophically and conceptually, collective consciousness has largely evolved since the emergence of the democratic principles and protocols. The intellectual and symbolic tools available to citizens have accompanied technological and artistic products as a function of the tools for issues understanding, communication and collective rationalization. These tools have an exponential development; in practical terms, their effectiveness is finally available to the public via the internet and the ICTs, which potentiate the possibilities of democratization of governatic.

If the citizens of a nation can openly consider themselves in a democracy and experiment with the freedoms it defines, all the tools for between-citizens communication and for decentralization of management capacities are viewed as tools for the democratization of governance, i.e. the four powers: media, political, legislative, and executive power (the capacities of information storage, processing and communication, the access to the logistics of territorial planning, and to philosophical, scientific and technological progress implying an evolution of the concept of democracy and of its practical applications).

By extension, the governatic index of a nation or society is defined as a function of each individual’s possibilities for territorial management. The more the governatic of a country or a group is expanded, the more democratic it is. And the larger the gap between the access to the governatic of the most richly and the most poorly equipped individual, the lower is the national governatic index.

At the international relations level, the right of nations to dispose of themselves limits the governatic capacities of each nation in the same ratio as at the citizen level: « the freedom of an individual ends where the freedom of others begins.”