I know who will be the next president of Brazil.
To be next,
it is necessary to convince the majority of only 100 people
in a country like Brazil, with 200 million people.
You also know: it’s not for nothing
that almost 33% of voters did not vote in the last elections.
This is a phenomenon that is happening around the world.
People are giving up politics
because we’re just keeping the old ones there.
The representativeness does not represent
and our current system of politics and creation of new politicians,
this ecosystem in which we live,
does not work anymore.
No one else believes in him.
Currently, this representation is in this small group.
For example, for a contractor, every R $ 1 in an election campaign,
the return is $ 8 in public contracts,
just as the laws do not fall from heaven,
and they are rarely neutral.
For you to have an idea, in recent years,
more than 50% of all provisional measures in our Congress
had the same economic nature as the donors of their rapporteurs,
and this data is getting worse.
By 2014, ten companies funded 70% of federal deputies.
The point here is that it is very clear
who is achieving and achieving this representativeness,
and it is no coincidence that many of these influencers
are even blaming themselves on election campaigns
in the largest investigative operation against corruption in Brazil,
which is Operation Lava Jet.
And then, the question arises: can technology turn anything into politics?
We live in an age when everything is being transformed,
everything is being impacted by technology,
but we are not seeing any solution
of how we can impact politics.
In my opinion, there is only one way:
we will only be able to impact the policy in its representativeness
if we create technology
and an ecosystem in our society
where it is possible to create new politicians at all times.
If we continue to use technology only in favor of false news,
manipulation, robots, marketing and communication,
politics will not change.
We also live by saying that women are minority,
we say that blacks are a minority,
but we all know that this is not true.
We say this because they are not represented in politics.
One thing that is very important:
democracy is not a sport, for us to be watching on TV.
Democracy requires involvement.
We can not face democracy by criticizing it in bars,
criticizing her in the family home.
We have to get involved.
Democracy is an eternal construction.
For you to have an idea of the current financial challenge here in Brazil,
to elect a federal deputy, an average of R $ 6.4 million is required.
This number is only increasing,
becoming an obstacle to the construction of new politicians.
In the same way, in Brazil, there is the partisan fund,
which is the financing fund for politicians here in Brazil.
The value of this fund is determined by politicians themselves annually.
Whether you like it or not, we’ve all donated to election campaigns.
In 2016, this number was R $ 819 million,
that is, each one donated a minimum of R $ 4.
What is the difference between the partisan fund and direct funding?
Direct financing allows collective construction
representative.
Funding, as it does today, does not.
No one can influence the campaigns.
For you to have an idea
of how I believe there are clues as to how we can believe
in the fact that technology can build a new ecosystem,
is we analyze some movements of network construction in the digital world.
In one of them in Brazil, in 2015, for example,
we have been able to finance more than 25 thousand projects,
of diverse purposes, in networks here in Brazil,
using crowdfunding platforms.
In the United States, in 2008,
Obama has won his election with more than 3.5 million funders.
In 21 months, he managed to raise $ 750 million.
This was only possible because the technology was there.
Here in Brazil, we have built a law called “civil
which regulates the use of the internet.
It was built by more than 10,000 employees on online platforms.
We also had the “clean bill law”,
which was supported by more than 1.6 million Brazilians.
The policy is network funding.
The big question is that today this network is very small,
and we need to massify it.
We need to make this something for everyone, not for the few.
In 2016,
I had the opportunity to lead one of the projects
which I believe are important to impact our representativeness.
His name is “Legal Vote”.
It is free software
which we have developed with various civil society organizations,
among them the MCC, the Movement Against Election Corruption.
Our goal was to build candidates
who had as clear proposal of political career
have fairer and more transparent elections,
and we needed technology for that.
We developed an interface where each candidate could put a video
explaining why he wanted to get his money,
carrying out a campaign of donation, in addition to a campaign of voting.
At the same time, we encouraged a citizen language,
for everyone to understand this reason.
All the projects he had for his mandate were clear,
that is, we wanted to create a campaign memory.
At the same time, any candidate wishing to enter the platform
you would have to make your campaign financial planning available:
cost planning, your donors, with what you are spending.
But 2016 was a rather difficult year in Brazil.
We had an election of only 45 days,
because our electoral law puts a lot of restrictions on the political.
You can only raise financial resources at the time of election.
So the politicians had 45 days
so they could ask for a vote and ask for money.
At the same time, we had the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,
we had an impeachment process
and yet a drastic change in the electoral law,
prohibiting companies from participating in this process.
But during this period,
I saw fantastic stories happening here in Brazil.
One of them is Áurea Carolina.
With only 32 years, black, feminist,
coming from the hip-hop movement, in her first candidacy,
through a collective, a network of people called “City that We Want”,
managed to be the most voted councilwoman in the city of Belo Horizonte.
She also used the Legal Voto platform.
But the point is that today, this phenomenon is isolated,
is an exception; it is not a standard.
And we need to expand this technology
for a greater number of new political candidates.
And for this to happen, I need your help.
We need to encourage small donations.
Most people today
has a huge difficulty in wanting to donate to a politician.
We do not trust this class anymore.
At the same time, politicians have a very great difficulty
to request money.
There are even some who say
who do not want anyone’s money to be elected.
Donation culture is an issue
in which we observed that during the elections,
the candidates who have managed to carry out a campaign focused on donation,
had a spectacular comeback.
And this also goes through two major challenges that we currently have,
which are electoral crimes.
The first is box two,
ie the receipt of money through illicit means
and which are not accounted for for accountability,
hampering inspection.
The other is the use of oranges,
politicians who borrow your name to justify donations they have received.
And, it is very clear that during this whole process of construction,
we have only two ways from now on:
we continue to have a currency of power,
where large companies and large individuals can finance the policy,
or the creation of a representative currency,
a representative currency that is R $ 10, R $ 15,
to create new politicians.
Thinking about that,
we have been pursuing existing technologies and experiences
that could facilitate and impact people’s confidence in politicians
in this electoral process.
In 2008, a currency called “Bitcoin” was created.
This coin does not work inside a bank,
she does not need a government.
It works autonomously.
We use this technology
to make the process more transparent and reliable.
The “blockchain” will probably be the technology
which will impact the law, accounting, financial system,
just as the internet has impacted commerce, advertising and communication.
A very simple example:
imagine if, during the elections,
when you cast your vote in an urn,
this vote was registered in all polls of the country.
This would make the process much more reliable,
which is what does not happen today.
And that’s what this technology can guarantee for us.
The Legal Vote was developed in free software,
that is, anyone can use.
The other issue is that we have drafted a smart contract,
where traceability of all donations was possible in real time.
That is, all the candidates who used the platform
have made a commitment:
in real time, I’m making all my financial information available.
Because transparency is not a process,
transparency is not to require a report at the end of the elections for everyone,
So we can check what happened,
see the crimes being judged now in the TSE.
We can not demand that everyone just send something to us and explain later.
We need to make the electoral system transparent,
in real time: you made a donation
and this information is going to all at the same time.
And we already have technology for that.
The electoral process is a war between political groups,
and this is what is important,
because we have to give information to these political groups
because, besides us, who will supervise the politicians themselves are them,
the oppositions between them.
A supercurious fact
is that we observe, already in the elections of 2016,
that the candidates who received from the largest number of donors
have had up to five times lower the cost of voting
than those who received [less].
That is, a tip for politicians:
request donation, that you will have a lower cost of voting.
The donations, in the 2016 elections as well,
80% of them are considered of small value,
and only 20% are worth millionaires.
Despite the reform in the law,
it was clear that we can not trade contractors for millionaires.
We have to do something so we have limits on giving,
because giving has to be an act of support.
It can not be an act of power.
During the Voto Legal process, we had 800 registered candidates,
of almost 27 parties.
One hundred and thirty used the Legal Voto platform in the year 2016,
among them, the most voted councilman in São Paulo,
as well as the most voted in Belo Horizonte.
We have transacted on the platform, among these candidates, a small value
close to the almost 500,000 candidates that we have in Brazil today.
But what was important in this process
is that we can prove that there can be technology
that can position a politician to seek a donation,
that he can carry out his entire campaign
using technologies to provide security to its constituents
and reliability.
The currency of representation is small donations.
So that’s why I invite you
to stimulate, support and make donations
for its next candidates,
because, otherwise, the candidacies for our next president will be predictable,
It’s going to be who gets more money.
Thank you.
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