We should probably keep an eye on this. Matt Jones, dreamer of this parish and information architect at the BBC, is working on an ambitious project intended to get us ‘reengaged’ with voting and with democracy in the widest sense. Here, Sian Kevill, Matt’s ‘sponsor’, who works in the office of the e-envoy, writes about the project at Open Democracy. Some people think projects like this represent the future of the BBC’s public service obligations in the networked era.
In which I try, after 25 years of blogging, to drop my ironic stance a bit.