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Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
SUBJECT CONSUMER CITIZEN DEPENDENT TO RELIGIOUS DUTY OBEY RECEIVE COMMAND PRINT HIERARCHY SUBJECTIVE INDEPENDENT FOR MATERIAL RIGHTS DEMAND CHOOSE SERVE ANALOGUE BUREAUCRACY OBJECTIVE INTERDEPENDENT WITH SPIRITUAL PURPOSE PARTICIPATE CREATE FACILITATE DIGITAL NETWORK DELIBERATIVE
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Keely Adler added 3mo ago
After all, it has been the dominant story for only 80 years or so; its very dominance is evidence that stories can and do change.
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To see and believe in our power, our agency, doesn’t mean we are anarchists or libertarians who disregard the role of government and other institutions; nor do we hold ourselves to be masters of the universe or knights in shining armour. It is to acknowledge the inherent worth and potential and power of every one of us to contribute what we each un
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According to Falkvinge: ‘everybody can change the world if he or she is passionate about a specific change, and that change is tangible, credible, inclusive, and epic enough to attract a swarm’25 which he defined as ‘a decentralized, collaborative effort of volunteers that looks like a hierarchical, traditional organization from the outside. It is
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In its chaotic, open, and intensely creative origins, the internet offered individual empowerment and access, cross-pollination, almost limitless connection among and between Citizens everywhere. As a many-to-many medium, it asks more of us than television or radio or the printing press, equipping us to be active in the world, capable of representi
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The internet has become increasingly abused as a tool to undermine Citizenship, not unleash it.
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The New Citizenship Project response posits Three Citizen Ps: Purpose, Platform, and Prototype. Again there is a corresponding question to each. For Purpose: what is the organisation trying to do in the world? What can people not just buy from the organisation as Consumers, but instead what work in the world can we buy into as Citizens? For Platfor
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Businesses gain most from the idea of becoming Platforms, involving people rather than just selling to them.
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less of an organisation delivering for people and more of an open-source social movement, or as Leonard puts it, ‘instead of us being the hero, being a hero among heroes.’110
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