Government and Citizenship in the age of participation
Tomorrow is going to be the dawn of a new day….Change Camp Ottawa. What is this about? Why give up a long weekend for this? “ChangeCamp Ottawa is being organized by the Ottawa community to bring together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy makers, political players, change-makers and government employees to discuss participatory governance in a web-enabled world.” How do we re-imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation? This seems a little out there and confusing so I thought that I would...
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Change Camp and Agenda Camp. How their economies are being transformed. Remarkk.com OmakaseGroup.com The government is not the web. The government is the only use violence to enforce law and order Can have only one government at a time. So how can govt. be the open web? If they are so different in character then how then can they be open. Authority (Political) = power + legitimacy Within a tribal system the tribal leader has this power and the power to exercise it. In the west we have constitutions and rules to elect someone to power....
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