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Citizenville
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Citizenville

How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government

Penguin Press, 2013 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative

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.

Take-Aways

  • Governments are slow to adopt new technologies even after they change citizens’ jobs.
  • “Government 2.0” must embrace transparency and an open data policy.
  • Government information belongs to the people.

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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