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Direct Democracy SA

Civic participation for South Africa, starting with public-land transparency.

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01 / Problem

The problem.

South Africans have little visibility into how public land is used or sold, and few direct ways to take part in the decisions.

02 / Solution

The solution.

A civic participation platform, starting with Land Watch: public valuation rolls turned into a searchable record of publicly owned land, so communities can see what is happening and speak up.

Direct Democracy South Africa home page
Direct Democracy South Africa home page

03 / Principles

The Neotron way.

  • Sovereign(applied)
  • Local AI(applied)
  • EU / GDPR-first(not yet)Not yet
  • Open source(applied)
  • Circular(not yet)Not yet

Open data for citizens, processed on our own hardware and published transparently.

04 / Built with

Built with.

Runs on Neotron building blocks

  • Local AI server
  • Supabase core
  • n8n automations

05 / Impact

Impact.

  • 10

    Reduced inequalities

    Enabling

    Gives communities a voice in how public assets are used.

  • 16

    Peace & institutions

    Target 16.6Direct

    Transparent public land records support accountable institutions.

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06 / Trend & innovation

Trend & innovation.

Technology readiness

TRL 2 of 9

Horizon

H3 — Long-term bet

Megatrends

  • Konnektivität
  • Wissenskultur

Why now: Public land data exists, but it is locked in PDFs no citizen reads.

Megatrends after the Zukunftsinstitut model.

07 / Get involved

Get involved.

Support

Back the work as a partner, pilot or early user.

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