Our Team

This page contains a list of people and organisations who are an official and publishable part of the Politify.org team. As well as direct contributors to the ongoing work of building the Politify platform and the Politify organisation, we also acknowledge the efforts of contributors with undefined positions, temporary positions and/or those who seek to remain anonymous. We also acknowledge the good work of those no longer with us whose contributions we still rely upon.

A growing team for a growing organisation!

Be a part of the Politify.org team

If you understand the need for a true representation of the people, best facilitated by the creation of a direct democracy system...

If you understand truth as a philosophically definable phenomenon, reality as an observable/measureable quantity and opinion as an emotion themed story that may or may not be connected to either...

If you are a person who seeks solutions and not problems...

If you have a relevant skill you can demonstrate...

...then the Politify.org team would be lucky to call you a member.

On a limited basis, as our budget expands to permit it, we are hiring. This is no ordinary organisation and no ordinary job, its a cause and a social movement; we need to see applications that describe what you can do for Politify.org.

Please Contact Us to discuss your intentions.

Disclaimer

* Politify will never make any commercial or political deal that will prevent the organisation as a whole from acting in full capacity to deliver its social benefit ambitions.
* The Politify platform, when finally complete, will be protected by strict anti-corruption policies to ensure that its voting systems can never be compromised by any commercial dealings.
* The details of these anti-corruption policies to be published and discussed publicly on the Politify platform when created.
* The commercial and the social benefit goals will always be kept separate so that the capitalistic interests of the organisation will never compromise the integrity of its voting and social advocacy systems.
* The Politify platform will always remain neutral allowing any individual or group to make a positive contribution to society and to the way it is governed.
* Politify is a neutral platform created to allow anyone to share their ideas and to debate those ideas. Views expressed by Employees, Directors, Authors, Sponsors and/or Affiliates of Politify are their own views shared with equal opportunity using the Politify network. The veiws expressed are in no way indicative of any official policy of Politify as an organisation.

Inventor / Founder / Director

Cameron Gibbs

Summary

Experienced business manager, product developer, business systems developer, software developer and salesman. A man with excellent communication skills, a higher than average intelligence, a strong sense of personal discipline and a good work ethic.

Relevant Experience

• Managing Director of Openii, a solutions development business offering management-consultation and entrepreneurial business development.
• Former Vice-President of the Inventors Association of Australia (Federal) Inc.
• Former Vice-President of the Inventors Association of Western Australia Inc.
• Office manager, project manager, website developer, charity fundraiser, trades assistant in the manufacturing industry, manual artist, public speaker.
• Scientifically trained - two years of a Bachelor of Science (Physics) then switched to study Small Business Management.

Skills and Abilities

•  Superior Analytical and Evidence Based Reasoning Skills.
• Interested in:
  Physics
  Psychology
  Philosophy
• Many hours of extensive personal research - Able to understand and analyse complex systems including technological systems, social systems, economic systems and human resource based systems.
• Balancing High Academic and Emotional Intelligence.
• Extensive Self Analysis, Self Improvement and Personal Development Training.
• Able to bring suitable ways of being to the situation to achieve a goal.
• A focus on the positive. Aware of the negative.
• A Detail Person Who Never Loses Sight of the Big Picture.
• Able to bring focus to details required to make the larger goals happen.
• Can balance the occasional need for micro-management with the regular need to help other team members use their skills and talents.
• An Excellent Administrator - Skilled at Creating and Maintaining Robust Office Systems.
• Touch Typist.
• Technically Creative - Able to bring together existing ideas, knowledge and resources in order to create something new and made to order.
• A Results Focused Leader - Working to inspire, working to collaboratively create and achieve key performance indicators.

Muhammad Ans Bilal

Web Developer and Lead Programmer

Muhammad is the lead programmer and web developer working on the Politify platform.

Muhammad has been working in the software industry since 2010. His experience includes Python Development, Django, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Restful services, .NET, MVVM and Version Control systems.

Muhammad graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) in Lahore, Pakistan and now works internationally as a freelancer working on various projects.

He operates his own web development business as well as having worked on projects such as:

• Dincloud
• TalksDoc
• ITest
• TPL-Vehicle tracking portal
• MojoSells

Together with Cameron, Muhammad has been diligently working part time on the Politify platform since 2016. In that time he has proven himself to be a reliable and capable web developer and one of very few with an ability to interpret the extensive database and coding requirements of the project. He out-competed roughly 20 other web developers to be the Politify lead programmer.

Academic Consultants and Supporters

We Want Your Intellect!

Politify is seeking mentors, advisors and consultants of a boffin, expert and/or professional grade who can contribute ideas, support, network contacts, platform promotion and other intellectual services. Subject areas including law, governance, business, finance, marketing, philosphy, psychology, teaching, the scientific method and others. As a supporter of the project you can have a short biography posted here, we will link to your work to help you promote what you do, plus you get to be an early participant in the direct democracy revolution that is Politify.

If you have relevant expertise to offer the Politify team, please Contact Us to discuss your involvement.

Shane Greenup

Digital Misinformation Expert

Shane Greenup is the founder of rbutr, the creator of The Socratic Web and an expert in digital misinformation and false beliefs.

Immediately after graduating with a double degree majoring in Philosophy, Molecular Biology, and The History and Philosophy of Science, Shane became a web entrepreneur specialising in digital marketing and online community building. Shane's broad, generalist background gives him a unique perspective on the web and its potential impact on humanity over the coming decades.

Shane's broad set of passions also include blockchain technology, universal basic income, ethical non-monogamy, transhumanism, drug legalisation, biotechnology, social progress, philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, monetary policy, arbitrage trading, entrepreneurialism, innovation and community development.

Laura Gladstone

Advisor and Discussion Group Facilitator

Upon hearing about the early Politify concepts, Laura saw the potential for it to be used to generate ideas which then could translate into political projects. She saw that it would give people a tool with which to communicate and refine their ideas.

She started the Utopia Discussion Group in early 2013 with an interested group of friends. She began the group with the philosophy: "If it is true that we create the world with our thoughts, then we are spending far too much time thinking about dystopias and not enough about making the world a better place. So let's start thinking and talking about Utopia and maybe, just maybe, we might make it happen!" Upon joining the group which Laura began and ran, Cameron (Politify Inventor/Founder) was inspired by the enthusiasm and intellectual vigour of the group. This inspiration motivated him to get on with the task of developing the Politify platform.

In her spare time, Laura has initiated and run a number of different social and discussion groups aimed at getting creative and thoughtful people together and discussing a wide range of issues. At the time of this writing she was also running the Thought Provoking Book Club (this one is a group co-creation), and previously, the Modern Philosophers Bookclub, Ideas People and the Conscious Collective.

Otherwise, Laura is a dedicated, professional, public-servant. And yes, there are many such people.

Utopia Discussion Group

A big thanks goes to the members of the Utopia Discussion Group that was led by Laura. They provided their inspiration, their intellect, feedback and support to help get this project off the ground.

Web Development Team - Now Hiring

Politify.org are interested to hear from enthusiastic Python and PHP web developers. An emphasis of need is placed onto Django web development as this is the base framework for the Politify platform.

If you have these skills or have relevant skills and are looking to further develop them, this is your opportunity to get involved with a project that has a real purpose and a real social need. This is your chance to do some work that will make a lasting difference.

When it comes to building a web development team, we have two aims:

Cheer Squad - Now Hiring

Contact Us to become a part of our Cheer Squad. Members of our Cheer Squad are pre-approved to champion our message and to spread the word. Get your Facebook fingers walking, your email writers writing, your megaphone callers calling. If you insist on using pompoms, high kicks or shiny visual aids to get the attention of people then we won't stop you :)