Hard News: We're Blending again
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Main thing to take away from it for me was a complete disagreement with the consensus reached that it was "unrealistic to think that you might change the number of people who are interested in politics in any given population". It wasn't those words, but it was there more or less.
Eh? I honestly can't understand how you'd have taken that from the panel. It's certainly not my view.
The point I can't believe escaped me during the discussion is that it's all very well for geek-politics people to talk about the govt and the public sector as "they" - but who's putting their hands up to actually stand for councils or for govt?
I really wish we had a few more people like Cr Richard Simpson in politics.
Tangential:And again, grating, for me, was the continual return to "the govt must do this" to make whatever we want happen. I'm a firm believer in, we do it. We are the public, we have to make it happen.
Fer sure. I made the point that it's independent ventures - Scoop, the original They Work For You - that produce the leaps in engagement. The point - and it's kinda geeky - is that there are things the government can do in the way it presents public data that make a big difference to the way ventures like that can work.
And when it comes to things like copyright law, well, it's the people we elect to government who make it.
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Oh, and if you didn't get an RSVP thing, don't worry, just turn up at the venue - south entrance, Auckland museum, 6.30pm (from 6 is okay if you're at a loose end), tomorrow.
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