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How the Internet will (one day) transform government

Clay Shirky · TED

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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.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2012
Speaker
Clay Shirky
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Society and politics, Law
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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