# How the Internet will (one day) transform government

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Clay Shirky
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Society and politics, Law
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How the Internet will (one day) transform government](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government/bbe2fbad10fe), 19 min (TED's player)