What we ask of a department, and what it gets back.
Three asks, in rising order. Each stands alone. Each makes the next one easier. None needs a department to build anything: the software exists, it is open, and it is running on real money in North Goa today.
Run one round in one place.
Pick one taluka, gewog or ward, and a sum. Its shops, households or self-help groups vote in 30 days, and the members say what it did for them in 6 months. A result with a date on it, on your own ground, this year.
Needs: the sum, and a line from your office inviting the members.
Ask the twin one question.
Which households look eligible for a scheme but are not drawing it? Where is the nearest day-care or clinic more than an hour away? A ranked map in two weeks, camps in the top ten places in 90 days. You find the villages your schemes miss before an audit does.
Needs: one named officer and the figures the department already keeps.
One rupee in a hundred.
Scotland's rule, on a single scheme line: one per cent of it, decided by the people it is for, by a vote that binds, on the same public page. Small enough to be safe. Real enough to be remembered.
Needs: the line, the sum and the rule.
What each gives back
- One. A dated result in your own taluka this year, on a public page, with the members' own report at six months.
- Two. You find the villages your schemes miss before the opposition or an audit does, from figures the department already keeps.
- Three. The Goa AI Policy 2026 was launched for industry. The first thing built under it for ordinary people would be yours, and Scotland's rule gives it a name that travels.
Built for the institutions that already exist.
It asks nothing of a group except that it can say four things: who it is, what it puts in, what it proposes, what it decided. A panchayat clerk can produce those from a spreadsheet; so can a gewog office, a municipal ward, a Kudumbashree society or a farmer producer organisation. How each group decides inside, by show of hands, by ballot, by its own custom, is its own business.
In Bhutan, the nine domains of Gross National Happiness are the natural yardstick a group votes against. The system takes whatever goals a group names.
Everything is open.
- The code that turns votes into a plan, with a checker anyone can run to confirm a plan followed the rules.
- The four things a group exports, in a plain file anyone can read. Enough for an outsider to check a whole round.
- The scheme catalogue behind the Goa twin: 770 schemes, with the rules for who qualifies read from each.
- The live board, which needs no login, and the full export of every round.
- The rehearsal: a thousand made-up businesses were put through the same software before the first real one signed up. What broke is written up.
What you are not asked to do
- Build or buy software. It exists, it is open, and it is running.
- Pass a file first. The Goa round runs on private money, so nothing needs sanction before there is a result with a date on it.
- Trust a machine with a decision. The AI writes drafts and signs them as drafts. People lead, back, vote and approve.
- Take anyone's word. Every rupee, every vote and every export is on a public page.
Who we are
The Cybernetic Society is a small group of citizens and volunteers working from North Goa. The Goa round is paid for by one of us, from their own savings: no grant, no donor, no company behind it. The protocol and the code are open on GitHub. This site, the live board and the twin are all we have to show, and we would rather show them than describe them.
Bring one place, one sum, one officer.
If a department, a panchayat, a dzongkhag or a municipal council wants to run a round of its own, with its own sum and its own members, this is built for exactly that.