My humble idea is to apply the crowd-funding concept to protest and civil disobedience. Only if the proposed action reaches a sufficient activation threshold of

My humble idea is to apply the crowd-funding concept to protest and civil disobedience. Only if the proposed action reaches a sufficient activation threshold of interest and commitment does it go forward. The trick is getting people to stick to commitments, given the ease of clicking a button online. One way is gamification, with reputation scores and mobile location check-ins. Another is getting people to commit real money, which is forfeited without a check-in (or perhaps, donated to something vile like the Westboro Baptists!). But after collecting enough data, you can also start doing some number crunching to estimate real turnout, and use that for your threshold. We need new forms of protest, and new tools of solidarity. I plan on building it if no one else gets to it first.