TED Talks

Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

TV-PG
2012 • E77    Jun 1, 2012    15m
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, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.

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