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Posts Tagged ‘We-Think’

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the Internet, I have started to wonder if we aren’t nearing a future in which the current shape of government itself is outdated.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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How the end of privacy could rid us of local policing

Posted in Privacy, Transparency, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In a new twist, the complete lack of social prIvacy potentially could be a good thing. At least according to the author of We-Think, Charles Leadbeater. In his book, he proposes that we apply social participation strategies to government to foster communities that govern and police themselves, without the need of interfering politicians or police. In a kind of neighbourhood watch on steroids if you will, whole cities/populations would essentially be activated to watch over each other in a mutual peer support fashion.

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