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Thursday
Apr262012

Better Connections. Better Government.

Governments at all levels are struggling. Struggling to manage diverging sets of voter values. Struggling to understand the new global context. Cornerstones like education, infrastructure and retirement security aren’t measuring up the way they used to. We hit the street to ask people what our increased online interconnectedness means for citizen engagement.

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Webidemic is...

  • A semi-regular broadcast about the way the web is changing our lives, why we should care and how we can act, together, for good.
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  • Mike Wickett - @mwickett
    Lindsay Sage - @linzsage
    Jeff Sage - @jeffsage

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There is less formal group structure and certainly less hierarchical arrangements in the world now than there are networked arrangements…This do-it-yourself and almost evanescent quality of networks is now a very distinct part of peoples’ way of engaging the world and it’s different from a couple generations ago.
Lee Rainie Director, Pew Research Center's
Internet and American Life Project