Beyond the Bureaucracy

Nonmediated Governance (nm-Gov) refers to a visionary state of a society in which members of the society steer their government through Liquid Democracy. This for now purely theoretical concept assumes that every citizen is represented in a digital form, that all assets of the society are represented digitally, as well as that rules that govern the community are digital. This paper summarizes nm-Gov and Liquid Democracy and describes a diagraming technique used to model use-cases to better understand how data in nm-Gov can be translated to concrete governance action. Deeper exploration of nm-Gov through modeling further use-cases with this diagraming technique is the theme of the Beyond Bureaucracy workshop at the dg.o 2025 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.