# Start here
The future of self-governance is being made today.
What tools do we have to work with?
Democratic Mediums is a directory of patterns for decision, deliberation, and noise.
This is an early-stage project that is mostly incomplete. Browse some sample entries: [Bureaucracy](mediums/bureaucracy.md), [Condorcet](mediums/condorcet.md), [Sortition](mediums/sortition.md).