Government 2.0 Slammed
Ross Mayfield,
Feb 25, 2005
I am supportive of the idea of decentralizing government, but not at the expense of placing governance into the hands of undemocratic institutions. I have often made the point that no society is democratic until its institutions are democratic. Its institutions include things like government agencies, corporations, NGOs and non-profits, schools and universities, and the like. Most of these are in no way democratic, and so by this definition we are a long way from democracy. And we would be even further away from democracy were we to put governance into the hands of these institutions, as suggested in William Eggers's Government 2.0. So I am sympathetic with the criticisms outlined in this link.
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