The concept of ‘local’ is pretty hot right now. There is the upcoming launch of Talk about Local, for example, which ‘intends to train thousands of people who don’t have a voice to find a powerful online expression for their neighbourhoods’.
Then there are the various events that are springing up, with localism their focus, such [...]
Posts on ‘February 9th, 2009’
How close is local?
"We need an algorithm that works"
I don’t know about you, but this term ‘Goverati’ makes me slightly nervous.
“What is the goverati? It is made up of people with first-hand knowledge of how the government operates, who understand how to use social software to accomplish a variety of government missions, and who want to use that knowledge for the benefit of [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
