Cool Tools for Government
We're looking at 'cool tools' that allow us to re-think public services. Who are the people seeing the gaps between individuals and institutions, and how are they filling them? How do we close feedback loops?
"technology"
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- Gadgets for doing good? In November, Fast Company noted that CNN is airing a documentary about North korea with the footage and information gathered from dissidents using video cameras and mobile phones."With new technological wonders every month, it is easy to get caught up in Apple's newest iPod or Microsoft's new Xbox 360 or the next Motorola RAZR. It is more difficult to remember transformative technologies that do more than provide entertainment--they change lives."If it's possible to do this under Kim Jong Il's... from : mollywebb 23rd January 2006
- collective action? I think pledgebank is one of the best examples of connecting individual's social concerns with wider action. This happens on the individual's terms -- you make a pledge and hope that others sign on.Tom Steinberg says "We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can't really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank is about beating that feeling..."Of course this doesn't mean that the pledges necessarily link individuals to government, but that is... from : mollywebb 14th July 2006