How the Internet will (one day) transform government

Name: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
Uploaded: 2012-09-25T14:51:45Z
Duration: 18 min 15 s
Description: The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.

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Clay Shirky |

TEDGlobal 2012

• June 2012

The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.