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How the Web is opening up our democracy
- tokenadult 18y ago"Meanwhile, we’re poised for a revolution in participation, not just in consumption, thanks to the Web. People talk, share, and talk back online. According to yet another study by Pew, this one in December 2007, one in five U.S. adults who use the Internet reported sharing something online that they created themselves; one in three say they’ve posted a comment or rated something online." It's an interesting article about a new model of political participation.
- russell 18y agoThe article describes some interesting trends: more data becoming available from the various levels of government (although with some resistance), monitoring and blogging by individuals and bloggers, web sites appearing that allow citizens to track and respond to the actions of their governments, and anecdotes that illustrate this in action. And he didn't even discuss the impact of grassroots fund raising to counteract the influence of big contributors. My take is that these are indications that there will be a fundamental transformation of how our democracy works. Transparency will be forced on the politicians. It looks like there will be lots of opportunity for HN types to help the process along, both as entrepreneurs and volunteers. How about Open (Source) Democracy.