Tim Berners Lee
When Tim Berners-Lee launched the world-wide-web in 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. At that time the web was a domain for practitioners only. Today it’s: “Here comes everybody.”
The web 2.0 enables communication and collaboration on a scale thought unimaginable only a few years ago. Today people want more of a say in everything we do - and that includes our democracy. Voting every few years is not enough for people anymore. What we’re talking about is how to bring our democracy into the 21st century and to align it better with our modern lives.
We have moved on, leaving our Parliaments behind. When the Berlin wall fell, so too did political divides. Yet our current democracy - Democracy 1.0 - continues to divide us. In our daily lives, at work and in our communities, collaboration is the norm. In Parliament, collaboration is the exception.
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