Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) Transform Government
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, not only to be transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.
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ABOUT Clay Shirky
“Clay Shirky argues that the history of the modern world could be rendered as the history of ways of arguing, where changes in media change what sort of arguments are possible with deep social and political implications.
His work focuses on the rising usefulness of networks using decentralised technologies such as peer-to-peer sharing, wireless, software for social creation, and open-source development.
New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralised and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting. In his writings and speeches he has argued that ‘a group is its own worst enemy’.
He is an adjunct Professor in New York Universityʼs graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches a course named ‘Social Weather’. Heʼs the author of several books. He gave an impassioned talk against SOPA/PIPA that saw 1 million views in 48 hours.”
The VIDEO
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