Apologies for the light posting around here at the moment – I’ve been very busy with another blog-related project called ‘Political Innovation‘.
It’s really for anyone who has looked at politics and asked themselves “why do we still have to do it this way?” The founding premise is that interactive technology is a game-changer.
On the one hand, it has had a huge impact upon conventional politics and it has compounded many of its minor pre-existing felonies.
On the other, it creates all kinds of possibilities – ones that would be welcomed by people across the political divides – to change the way that democratic politics is done.
For me, the interesting thing is that many of these game-changing ideas are supported by people who have a bit of a track-record of understanding how interactive technologies will change the media landscape, and opposed by the larger group who don’t. That seems like a good reason to go all evangelistic, doesn’t it?
So we’re running a series of essays – at least eight – possibly more – from political innovators with great ideas on how things can be moved on. We’ll be running them over the summer in partnership with some of the leading political blogs from across the spectrum – I’ve seen early drafts of a lot of them already, and they’re really very good.
Once they’re all written, we’re going to be looking for venues in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and – eventually – London to showcase them. (There’s an ambition to do this in the English regions and in the Irish Republic, but more on that later).
More later, but in the meantime, to stay in touch, join the Google Group, get every new posting send to your inbox, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, or just subscribe to the RSS feed. We’ve got some really exciting ideas to share and we hope you’ll be able to get involved.
