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The full benefits of digital democracy are being thwarted by digital exclusion that is driven by the high cost of data.
Teaching children digital literacy skills is essential to help them learn how to navigate and respond to misinformation. It also helps them grow into adults who can participate in digital democracy.
Taiwan has a population of over 20 million people and no new cases of coronavirus since mid-April. Embracing ‘digital democracy’ and ‘hacktivism’ have been the keys to their success.
Innovative ideas during the lockdown could protect democracy and make it stronger and more inclusive.
Citizens of Oman can now find every government department on Twitter, reporting issues and ensuring public servants are kept on their toes.
The Conversation Global examines the varied ways that governments around the world rely on digital tools to exercise power.
When leaders of weak democracies use social media to connect with their constituents, people feel heard. But Twitter responses won’t give citizens what they need.
While Facebook’s Zuckerberg suggested as much recently, companies run like autocracies cannot fulfill technology’s promise of reinvigorating the democratic process.
If there are forward-thinking minds within Labour that could bring fresh thinking to internet issues, they didn’t get the call.
The U.S. State Department and the United Nations are spending big bucks to support the internet as a boon for democracy. But new research shows just providing access isn’t enough.
The dawn of online government is supposed to help transfer power to the masses. But measures introduced last month look more like a state embellishing its power.
Top contributors
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Lecturer in Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Media Law, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
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Professor of Information Systems, University of Hertfordshire
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Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis and Communication, Northwestern University
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Researcher, Government Innovation, Nesta
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Researcher, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub / Centre for Automated Decision Making & Society / Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
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Research Manager, University of the Witwatersrand
