Innovation: the people deserve new solutions for a new day

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Innovation: the people deserve new solutions for a new day

We need a fresh look at our immigration process.  To apply to immigrate to Talossa, prospective citizens must complete an expanding form that requires an enormous amount of work to fill out -- someone answering thoughtfully will end up spending half of an hour or more on their application, and possibly even longer if they are dyslexic or not a native English speaker.

The form is long and intimidating.  It's expanded over the years.  It looks complicated, and asks a lot of questions.  And it is assuredly not the best we can do.  We need to take a good hard look, thoughtfully winnow down or simplify the questions, and make it more accessibly and friendly.  We need a new approach: our immigration process can be better.

We need a fresh look at our website.  Since the wiki has become such an important part of keeping track of our national story and presenting information to the world, our website has become very limited.  Most of the information was removed, rightfully so, because it was a huge amount of work to keep updating it in multiple places.  But since then, no one's really tackled the problem of its presentation.  We need a redesign and a new look from first principles, to provide easy navigation to information and visually prioritize the most important links.

For example, almost all of the official merchandise on TalossaWare is unavailable at this point, for example, so maybe it no longer makes sense to promote it at the top of the page (or maybe it should be updated).  Or consider the page for La C'hronică: it hasn't been updated in seven months, so maybe it shouldn't be so prominently displayed?  Let's take a fresh look at how we're presenting ourselves, so we can put our best face forward.

We need a fresh look at funding.  Currently, the way to donate money to Talossa is only through a Paypal link.  But there's a host of other free options that we could be utilizing, including many that easily allow monthly donations.  Monthly donations of a dollar or two would add up quickly, and they might allow us to end the undemocratic fees required to run for office -- or pursue more ambitious goals, such as advertising campaigns on places like TTRPG websites or locally in the Greater Talossan Area.

We need a fresh look at promoting culture.  Some of the most popular things in Talossa are regular events and competitions that take place: such as Talossan Music Top Twenty, Talossachess, Ceampiunità Talossan del Rälli, and (of course) the Talossan Cycling Association Tour.  These are some of our most fun activities, all produced by reliable and wonderful citizens.  We should be meeting the people where they are, and promoting and cheering on these wonderful activities.  In addition to promoting them on social media, as is often done, a banner space should be set up on the website homepage to promote them and use them to engage new possible citizens.  Perhaps the Government might approach some of their organizers to see if there was some way they could be supported or assisted.  These are diamonds in the rough, and it will take the barest of efforts to show the world how they gleam.

The Progressive Alliance will provide a fresh look at our web presence, making sure our online tools are being used in the best way possible.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

@þerxh Sant-Enogat , is the Baron speaking for your party with this new manifesto he seems to have worked out?

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

@þerxh Sant-Enogat , is the Baron speaking for your party with this new manifesto he seems to have worked out?

My party is proud to have such a smart, innovative and thought-provoking voice as the Baron's.
I am totally aligned with the ideas here, and I thank the Baron for expressing these -and in general for all his recent activity.
I am personnally ready to work to put these ideas in motion, with our party members, and I wish more citizens will join us and bring their strength and time to help us promoting our Nation.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

It's just that AD seems to be complaining about the Immigration form at the same time he is voting against an actual Government proposal to simplify that form.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Your bill also would provide for an immigration application test. I think that's the wrong direction to go.