“The reasonable person adapts themselves to the world; the upriser persists in trying to adapt the world to themself. Therefore, all progress depends on the upriser.” ~ adapted from George Bernard Shaw

UPRISER is being designed as the ultimate platform for rapid grassroots organizing, seeding revolutionary ideas, innovation, launching startups, whistle-blowing, and starting and coordinating positive initiatives democratically.

From innovators to Anonymous hacktivists, whistleblowers and rabble rousers to social entrepreneurs, iconoclasts and change-agents to John F. Kennedy’s speech writer – all share a common bond – the insatiable desire to change the world for the better – and now we are coming together to collaborate through a new site designed to coordinate massive positive change: UPRISER.com

UPRISER aims to unite the eclectic passions of rebels, visionaries, free-spirits and pioneers worldwide by offering them a platform to rapidly share, crowd-filter and amplify revolutionary ideas; giving the best ideas and most pertinent messages the support and attention they deserve. Top posts unlock tools pioneered by Anonymous to stage and coordinate massive distributed operations.

Viral amplification of ideas depends heavily on people’s vanity and willingness to be seen sharing something (often resulting in a glut of shallow memes that drown out more important ideas and messages). UPRISER, on the other hand, employs anonymous democratic voting and amplification so important ideas and messages get the attention they deserve. You don’t need to have a big following to be heard, you just need the right idea at the right time.

What happens when you bring millions of change-agents and disruptive innovators together? We’re about to find out.

UPRISER.com has the potential to be one of the most important online organizing tools for innovation because it helps rapidly select and coordinate positive action in a horizontal democratic way, while mainstreaming powerful team coordination tools pioneered and perfected by Anonymous. (Donate to the project here: http://www.indiegogo.com/upriser)

But this is just the beginning...

The UPRISER community will collectively design direct improvements to the site going forward, but we need your financial support to sustain the costs of development and hosting of UPRISER.com.

By providing these funds, at this critical time, you are helping this revolutionary platform reach maturity quickly and serve the world in a powerful way.

Expenses include database development, app server development, Android development, Apple IOS development, information layout, graphic and web design, at least one full-time administrator, scalable clustered hosting on Amazon Web Services just to name the essentials.

I have already put well over 50,000 dollars (which is basically all of my money) into this project, footing the bill for developer costs, rent, server costs, and retaining UPRISER.com in the face of a significant buyout offer. I am running out of cash, and I really need your help.