a town hall that fits in your pocket.
parley is where a place takes stock of itself, decides what matters, and pools what it has to do something about it.
Community Health
Money is only one way a place can be rich. parley asks where our communities are strong and fall short. Pull a slice out to say it's strong, push it in to say it's short. Switch between yours and everyone's to see how your neighbours see it.
go on, grab a slice and pull it out. on a phone, press and hold it first.
money
Can people here get by, and does money stay local?
trust
Do people here know and look out for each other?
skills
Are skills and know-how shared here?
nature
Are the land, water and food here looked after? Is nature cared for and stewarded.
culture
Are the stories, languages and arts here alive?
spirit
Is there room here for meaning, rest and belonging?
agency
Do people here have a real say in what happens?
care
Is there care for children, elders and anyone who needs it?
Only people in your place can see its wheel. It updates once a day, and a kind of wealth only fills in once five neighbours' grades count. Your own grades start counting a week after you first check in.
neighbourhoods
Check in where you live and you're part of that place's wheel. Groups can form around a street, a town or a cause, and anyone can join. Talking happens where people already talk: each group can link to its own chat.
Building bridges with pol.is
Most votes pick a winner and leave everyone else out. parley looks for what people agree on across the room.
everyone speaks in statements
Anyone can add a short statement. Everyone votes agree, pass or disagree, one at a time.
the room sorts itself
People who vote alike land near each other, so you can see the real groups instead of guessing.
what bridges, carries
What moves forward is what both groups agree on. Not the loudest voice, not a bare majority.
Taiwan used this method to settle how Uber would operate there after years of deadlock (vTaiwan, 2015). In Bowling Green, Kentucky, 2,000 residents used it to set a town agenda (2018).
Open Collective Treasury
billy is a BC benefit company, which means the public good it serves is written into the law that created it. Our mission is to become owned by the people who use billy and the people who build it, with any profit going into a treasury you vote on. billy and parley are tools to bring power back to the people.
When a place decides to do something, it usually needs money. parley is building one shared treasury with a separate book for each group.
the money doesn't sit in the app
It's held by an open, independent host, and you give through them, not through parley.
every dollar in the open
Every dollar in and every dollar out is public, in the group's own book.
spent the way the group decided
Money moves on what the group agreed together, not on who gave the most.
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parley is on the App Store now. Google Play is coming soon.