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The Geodesic Direct Democratic Network Lesson Five -General Archives As homework, each person who wishes to learn this should write a glossary of the new terms and titles, with their meanings, from this Lesson. If the terms are understood, the whole system is pretty much easily understood.
The General Archives provides the macroskeleton of the Geonet, as the process provides the microskeleton. The process creates a structured flow of data gathering, self-education, and decision making, while the General Archives is the pool the data is stored in, the schoolroom of the self-educating members, and generates the pattern of the organization that allows good decision making.
The General Archive is a computer server network which stores the records of all I-Team meetings, all gathered data, all finances, all Projects, and the membership pattern. It connects the members during I-Team meetings and is accessable at all times for the Ongoing Meeting.
Technical Administration of the General Archive is based on the Project Model, (See Lesson 6 -Projects) and will have employees like any business, mostly technical professionals who can keep the servers up and running and make any alterations necessary for security and ease of process. They will be under the direction of the Project Manager, but that person will be selected at random on a 14 month cycle from the entire Geonet and his/her name will not be public knowledge. The 14 months will allow a one month overlap between Managers, which will allow the previous manager to instruct the new manager in the technical details of running the servers and the employees. The Manager will be the only person who is active in the Geonet, with the employees of the General Archive being members suspended from the Geonet as long as they are employees of the General Archive Project. The only reason the General Manager's identity is kept secret is to prevent undue pressure from either within the Geonet or from without. The General Manager is paid exactly the same as all employees of the General Archive.
The Employees of the General Archive will also be picked at random from all the qualified members of the Geonet and be offered the job for no less than 14 months and no more than 26 months. The positions will overlap by one month to allow the outgoing employees to train the new employees. They will be paid, with all the health insurance and other necessary benefits, from the 1% General Archive fee from every account of every member of the Geonet and a 5% fee from the net corporate income from all fund producing Projects.
The General Manager oversees the random selection process and is, in turn, monitored by six randomly selected I-Teams picked every year from the total I-Teams of the Geonet, called the Oversight Teams, the identities of which are unrevealed until the end of their term. The General Manager, like all Project Mangers, is required to keep a daily log of all events, decisions, problems, and influences, or attempted influences, concerning his/her job as General Manager, and this log is made public in the General Archive at the end of his/her service as General Manager. The log is also available at any time, without need of request, electronically, by the six Oversite I-Teams which oversee the General Archive's activities and procedures. A second randomly selected set of 6 I-Teams, the Process I-Teams, are selected yearly, which is not known to the General Archive technical crew or the General Manager, which produces a report posted on the General Archive after the new General Manager is in place. The report is on the perceived functioning of the General Archive, not on the General Manager or the technical crew.
The Random Selection Process
The General Archive is the source of all random selection, of member positions, of specific task I-Teams, and the reshuffling that occurs once a year. Basically, it is a computer program that is seeded with a number created by averaging numbers submitted by the membership. The process will be designed into the encrypted software, including the number request to the members, the averaging, and the random process and result. Where the generated numbers are used are also set by the computer program. The program will keep track of all gaps in the Geonet, all links not filled, and where a gap exists, the computer randomly assigned a new member or a reassigned member. The computer will keep in existance a certain number of gaps, and when that number is approached, it will instead divide I-Teams and assign new members to the new I-Teams. (See Lesson 8 -Growth) The reason for the numeric number of preserved gaps is to prevent any assumption of assignment by members, new or reassigned, to particular I-Teams through the limited number of gaps known in the Geonet.
When the Geonet program generates the new assignments during the yearly reshuffle, it will also pick randomly the various special I-Teams with specific responsibilities and the new General Manager for the next period.
Geodemocracy Lesson 4 -Finances Geodemocracy Lesson 6 -Projects