Category: Media
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Bringing digital disruption to government
A few weekends ago we were invited to speak at TransPolitica, a conference on real world policy changes for a radically better future. Together with Tim from the CivicTech coworking hub RainGods (home to Represent’s London office) and Dan from MegaNexus we discussed how social enterprises are revolutionising democracy and the political process: from better information, to…
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ProgCode network – civictech in the USA
CivicTech is a global phenomena, arguably most coming of age during Obama’s first campaign, and more recently Donald Trump’s campaign has made powerful and inventive use of the resources available in the 2015 election to target and mobilise voters. The Bernie tech movement are building a network of tech volunteers and are creating open-source tools for…
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Do we still need political parties?
This article originally appeared in the New Statesman, 4 October 2016 Technology has changed everything. Apart from politics. When the Uber of democracy hits, will parties still have a role? It’s party conference season. Political parties appear to be doing well – about a million people are now members, and donations have increased. But on both sides…