Design - Structure

Expert Government is not hierarchical. Hierarchical government enables corruption and undermines the decisions of experts, because it would allow decisions to be overridden. Every expert has equal status and influence.

The system must divide influence into small specialist committees. This enables greater expertise and reduces the chance for corruption through abuse of too much influence.

It is important to have multiples of some committees. For example the personnel appointment committees and personnel monitoring committees. This ensures that where decisions to appoint, correct, discipline or dismiss are disputed, there is a one stage appeal procedure that can exclude all members of the committee with which there is a dispute. Also each committee can not act on its own members.

No committee member can be allowed to serve for more than five consecutive years, or a total of fifteen. Having served on a committee, return is prohibited within five years during which the person must be working full time in the field they are next employed in.

People cannot be considered for a committee position until they are at least forty years of age, and are demonstrably expert within the field they will be employed in. Further, they require a minimum of five years practical experience in the private sector. However, anyone can apply, regardless of formal qualifications. Mistakes by committee members are tolerated, but not so many that their expertise is called into judgement. Mistakes are not the same as diverging opinions. Committee members should be aware of the full range of opinions on their subject but not be a strong advocate of an extreme position.

As committees are largely autonomous, they are not tied to a specific location; they may even agree to meet in different locations each time. Anyone can book to attend as an observer, for example, to monitor the progress of their proposal.