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April 12, 2012 12:10 am GMT

Keen On Politics: How The Internet Offers The Opportunity To Create We-Government [TCTV]

Screen Shot 2012-04-11 at 11.38.20 AMThere are few more articulate or passionate commentators on digital politics than Andrew Rasiej, the founder and CEO of Personal Democracy Media and the organizer of the upcoming Personal Democracy Forum. As Rasiej told me when we talked in New York City earlier this month, the Internet offers the opportunity to create what he calls "we-government" - a much more accountable and transparent form of 21st century politics than the type of governance that existed in the 20th century. But for this to happen, Rasiej reminded me, politicians need to be able to distinguish between "a server and a waiter" and we need to dilute the impact of money on our political process.

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