It’s a lengthy endorsement by the BBC’s Bill Thompson for a very good blogger, and it’s thoroughly deserved:
Mr Davies brings Weber, Hayek, Weinberger, Arendt and even Habermas to bear on the question of whether decentralising information through online services like data.gov.uk can offer us good government.
He concludes that while it may provide transparency and even [...]
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Does decentralising information offer us good government?
We don’t want to read your website. We want to write it.
So: It’s now official. Local authorities are going to be obliged to promote democracy (and the bill is quite prescriptive about the role that the internet will have to play in this). It should make for an interesting seven months.
There is often something of a dialogue of the deaf between those who have spent some [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
