Gavin Newsom and Lisa Dickey
Citizenville
How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government
Penguin Press, 2013
What's inside?
What if citizens could easily access all the data that governments collect, store and attempt to conceal?
Recommendation
California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, writing with Lisa Dickey, offers stimulating ideas about the possibilities of a more open, robust democracy in the digital age. His title evokes popular games like Farmville, in which people improve virtual farms. In Newsom’s future, people improve their communities. He loads his book with examples of how government can create innovative solutions that engage citizens directly. He also cites many possible beneficial results of increased direct engagement. getAbstract recommends his forward-looking thesis to anyone intrigued by a civic future that offers an alternative to partisan gridlock and policy paralysis.
Summary
About the Authors
Gavin Newsom, the current California lieutenant governor, is the former mayor of San Francisco. Freelance writer Lisa Dickey has collaborated on nine nonfiction books.
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