Civilization on earth hurtles through 21st century spurred by information, communication and technological innovation but one important aspect lags behind! It is governance. The political system of representative democracy that is popular today entrusts power into the hands of a few, by a much larger number through an election process. The equal share to power that democracy boasts, is limited mostly to the 'right to vote'! Once election is done the larger group has negligible access to the few holding power and it is 'business as usual'; governance plagued with selfishness, corruption, apathy and powerlessness. From USA the oldest to India the largest, the predicament is the same.

For the past few decades, due to the advancement of mass media, mammoth budgets are spent to 'brainwash' the public during election time. And criminal corporate tycoons are ready to advance campaign money for a piece of the pie when the candidate wins. Policies get drawn to benefit corporate cronies of the ruling political party and their combined greed, have no limits to loot the land.

Further, there is a real scarcity of value based political candidates standing for election. With the result, citizens have very limited options to choose their leaders. The present election scenario in the 'oldest democracy' is a typical example. In the 'largest democracy' it is the same or worse! Political candidates under various political banners get selected because of their clout, their caste affiliations, capacity to spend during elections and loyalty to the party. Once elected, filling their coffers and keeping their cronies going would be the dual priorities. Social challenges like social injustices, inequalities, poverty, hunger, corruption, war, conflicts, extremism, terrorism, unemployment, disease, casteism, communalism, environmental hazards, global warming and atrocities against women, children and socially and economically weak and so on are the direct result of lack of people's (at individual level) active participation in governance and the lack of suitable a platform to come together to have deliberations and sort out issues. The present form of democracy is not inclusive and not dynamic fades after the electioneering process.

The main causes for all social challenges are: selfishness, Helplessness (Powerlessness) and lack of vision and mission. If people can be emancipated from these three major causes we can definitely eradicate all the above stated social challenges on a permanent basis.

In present day democracy there is no system in place that ensures active long-term participation of the people in day-to-day governance matters. Genuine local leaders who are ready to get involved in governance have no way they could do so; there is no platform available for them to connect to. The problem in great measure stems from the inherent inadequacies of the present day democracy system (that is sans inclusive and dynamic)...mainly because it does not have the required 'mechanism' to reach the residents of streets and 'be alive' at the 'tail-end'

Thus an urgent need can be clearly seen for advancing democracy and making it more dynamic and inclusive, participative and proactive.