The Yes Directory in detail
Calling all Group Organisers
The Yes Directory is a completely decentralised, GDPR compliant public listing and communication system, designed for the autonomous Yes Groups of Scotland’s Independence movement.
Autonomy
The YES Directory has been designed to give each registered group complete control over the public information they choose to list, and full responsibility for replying to each contact request made directly to them through IndyApp’s private message system.
Communicate
The advantages this fully decentralised ‘YES Directory’ brings to participating groups is the ability to be found easily and contacted directly by willing YES volunteers in their own communities.
Welcome
These volunteers can be met online using IndyApp’s secure video conferencing (or perhaps ‘face to face’ for a coffee) and then, when everyone is happy, easily made a member of your group on IndyApp to quickly get campaigning together for YES, on the ground - locally.
Grow
The power of this new decentralised ‘YES Directory’ is that the grassroots movement now has a national way to autonomously recruit - but locally and in every community across Scotland. This new grassroots capability avoids the inevitable bottlenecks when filtering volunteers through a central Yes HQ, as happened in 2014.
Organise
This time, every willing YES volunteer will be welcomed directly by their own local YES group and put to good use campaigning for Indy in their own communities - up, down and across the country.
Coordinate
Similarly, the ‘YES Directory’ makes it simple to list, search, share, contact and coordinate Indy Events all across the country. Making Indy events simple to find for the YES curious public, while allowing participating groups to easily check dates of their own proposed events for unintended clashes or double bookings with other Yes events already in the diary.
Campaign
The ‘YES Directory’ is also there to give volunteers access to the different grassroots YES campaigns going on across Scotland. Providing a simple way to make contact with the organisers of the campaigns you, and any other supporter, might want to give their help and support to.
Decentralise
All these new ‘public facing’ grassroots facilities are under the direct control of each participating YES group. So, this decentralised ‘YES Directory’ system is completely reliant on each registered group completing and updating their own group’s ‘Front Door’ profile and contact page on IndyApp. This is done by each group’s ‘Editor team’.
Engage
We have a 30 min orientation film showing how simple all this is, and we are currently contacting each registered group to make sure they have their editor team in place and every group on the IndyApp is contactable before we launch the ‘YES Directory’ fully to the public.
Network
A great advantage of the newest version of IndyApp is that every local YES group ‘editor team’ now also automatically become members of a national ‘Editor Group’ on the app. This means that all group editors, across the country, can talk to each other directly and work together on anything they feel is important to their movement.
Participate
So, if you want to be the editor for your group, or would like to register your group on the IndyApp YES Directory, just click here and fill out your group sign-up form
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IndyApp has no limits on the number of editors in a group, so please download the latest IndyApp, look for your group and contact us even if you think your group already has editors in place. Our aim is to get the YES Directory completed, and every group contactable before IndyApp is fully launched to the general public. Populating the YES Directory is now URGENT.
The sooner the ‘YES Directory’ network is populated and live, the sooner it can go public and begin to help organise and grow as a grassroots YES movement. So, please contact us as soon as you can and lets all get ourselves fully networked and campaign ready...
Calling all Group Organisers
IndyApp benefits to YOUR own group
As we systematically populate the ‘YES Directory’ with you, the Group Editor teams, we will also be automatically populating the national ‘Editor Group’ on the IndyApp. This group is where we can all meet together, and where you and all the other Editor teams will experience first-hand, the networking and organisational advantages the IndyApp can bring directly to your own group.
Things like:
Making secure communications within your group really easy
Makes secure communications between your group membership and surrounding group memberships really easy.
Allows easy sharing of your own group’s campaign proposals with every other YES group, and also makes working with other group proposals you like the sound of simple too. This is done using 'National Proposals'
Provides you the tools needed to organise as a group, privately communicate, discuss and distribute internal group only information. Taking the burden off group organisers by making way for group members to organise and communicate their ideas with each other directly.
It allows you, and your whole group, to contribute to organising the YES movement.
It places you and the YES group network at the centre of welcoming others to the campaign, because growing the grassroots into a locally organised national force is essential to achieving our Independence.
It helps build a quantifiably visible grassroots support network, where your contribution is recognised and valued as essential to achieving Independence.