Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

What data visualizations can tell us about the world

Posted: September 15, 2009 in Data visualisation, Uncategorized
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As any researcher will tell you, the difficultly of visualising complex datasets is quite simply, the challenge of finding a way to represent the numbers so that they actually mean something to the person who uses it. In the interesting US/China trade example, the line weight gives an immediate indication to the size of the [...]

Innovating the way we govern society

Posted: July 5, 2009 in Politics
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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the Internet, I have started to wonder if we aren’t nearing a future in which the current shape of government itself is outdated.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?

Six reasons why we might still need politicians

Posted: June 5, 2009 in Politics, Uncategorized
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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.