Challenges: Five Streams for Building the Future
D2026 runs as a set of public challenge streams. Each stream is a place to surface gamechangers, test them, and—most importantly—merge the strongest parts of competing ideas into robust solutions.
Four Ways to Act (Use These Everywhere)
Every contribution fits one of these actions. They work for every stream—Economics, Government, Technology, Education, Entertainment.
Share a mechanism, model, protocol, or valuable fragment that could change outcomes at scale.
If you don’t have an original idea yet, start with ideas you respect—people, books, films, songs—and extend them.
Run a small pilot, stress a claim, map risks, or test in a real setting. Report results plainly.
Make the work legible. Summarize progress, connect collaborators, and invite the next action.
Reddit-first: Post to r/democrify using a domain flair: Economy, Government, Technology, Education, Entertainment. Start your title with [Propose], [Build], [Try Out], or [Spread].
The Five Challenge Streams
These are the five top-level streams we’ll run continuously. Each stream welcomes proposals, builds, trials, and message-spreading. Each stream is also a place to resolve conflict by synthesis: preserve valuable fragments and merge forward.
New models for money, incentives, funding, distribution, dignity-through-work, and opportunity creation.
New models for governance, accountability, representation, dispute resolution, transparency, and civic trust.
Tech systems that genuinely empower people—tools, protocols, verification, safety, usability, and collaboration.
Personalized learning, empowered learners, mentorship trees, AI-assisted mastery, and credible pathways to opportunity.
New models for storytelling, challenges, games, and media formats that help good ideas spread without manipulation—and invite real participation.
Optional next step (later): each stream can become its own page (e.g., challenge-economics.html) once we need depth.
For launch week, this single page is enough.
Economics
We’re looking for new economic mechanisms that can be tried in reality—especially ideas that increase dignity, stability, and opportunity while aligning incentives rather than demanding charity.
Many of the most promising economic ideas don’t start with asking for funding. They start with creating something people genuinely want to pay for—and then designing systems where value creation and social benefit reinforce each other.
Post idea: Use flair Economy and start your title with [Propose], [Build], [Try Out], or [Spread].
Government
We’re looking for governance models that make truth, accountability, and fairness operational—not ideological. If a model improves outcomes, we test it. If two models each contain strengths, we synthesize.
Government doesn’t only mean formal public-sector government. Any group that lasts has governance: a set of rules, roles, and decision processes people agree to follow. For example, organizations like the Boy Scouts have developed highly structured internal governance systems—ranks, responsibilities, codes of conduct, ceremonies, accountability mechanisms, and leadership pathways. This is not an endorsement of the organization itself, but an illustration of how complex governance can exist inside a voluntary group.
Similarly, the entertainment world operates under shared rules that are both rigid and flexible at the same time—contracts, guild standards, production roles, release norms, and evolving cultural expectations. That’s governance too.
D2026 Government challenges focus on opt-in governance systems—rule sets that communities and organizations can voluntarily adopt, test, measure, and improve. This is more productive than trying to change long-standing institutions that have developed defenses against change.
Post idea: Use flair Government and a title tag like [Try Out] to propose a pilot.
Technology
Do you have an idea for a new product or software program? It could involve anything—video games, music, sports, technology like AI or robotics, animals, the environment, sharing things, or something entirely different.
We’re especially looking for tools and protocols that help people think clearly, coordinate, verify claims, and collaborate—in contrast to today’s systems, which often amplify conflict, competition, and confusion.
Post idea: Use flair Technology—and if you’re unsure where to start, begin with Build on Ideas You Respect.
Education
We’re looking for learning systems that help people progress—fast—without shame, gatekeeping, or fragile credentials. Most students are frustrated with traditional educational systems. We need powerful supplementary tools that students want to use. “Empowered learners” is not a slogan here; it’s an operational design goal.
Post idea: Use flair Education and propose a pilot that can run in weeks, not years.
Entertainment
We’re looking for cultural mechanisms—shows, challenges, formats, storytelling, games—that help good ideas spread without manipulation.
Entertainment is D2026’s secret weapon. It attracts attention, sustains engagement, and makes participation feel human. Television, movies, games, social challenges, live events, and interactive media are powerful ways to invite people into shared problems and shared experiments.
When designed carefully, these formats can encourage curiosity, collaboration, and thoughtful participation rather than polarization.
Post idea: Use flair Entertainment and propose a format that people would actually join.
Call to Action
Pick an action. Choose a stream. Post publicly. Invite collaboration. Keep the work evolving.
Share a mechanism or fragment worth pursuing.
Start with inspirations and merge forward.
Test, document results, iterate honestly.
Make it legible. Connect people. Invite action.
Go to: r/democrify • How It Works • Press Summary