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Innovating the way we govern society

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some will remember the past decade as the decade the people started to claw back power from business and government. What with the rapid growth of online consumer activism, whistleblower sites and consumer driven watchdog organisations that has proliferated on the Internet, I have started to wonder if we aren’t nearing a future in which the current shape of government itself is outdated. What if there was a better way of running the country? One in which everybody could directly effect the direction we are heading and the laws that we pass?

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Six reasons why we might still need politicians

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In light of the recent UK elections, I thought it would be helpful for people to have a different view on politicians. Given the fact that we currently live in an age where the technology exists to enable “direct democracy” over “representative democracy,” we need now more credible reasons to elect professional politicians to spend time sitting in Parliament endlessly debating issues face to face than they happen to be running and belong to the right political party.

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