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And others, also connected to the Internet, used it as an instrument of democracy.
It also monitors the Internet and instructs local media on how to handle any potentially controversial issues, including Tibet, ethnic minorities, Human Rights, religion, democracy movements and terrorism.
The Mall is a symbol of American democracy.
The ideals of participatory democracy are represented through suppleness rather than rigidity.
And you can't pay one of these companies to make the world suddenly nice and improve democracy nearly as easily as you can pay to ruin those things.
In their own words to an open-ended question we heard, "Their political system is transparent and it's following democracy in its true sense."
Because Egyptians are more optimistic than they have been in years, far less divided on religious-secular lines than we would think and poised for the demands of democracy.
In a FILMCLUB season about democracy and government, we screened "Mr.
They understand what accountability and democracy is.
We were able to mobilize Ghanaians in the Diaspora to instigate change in Ghana and bring about democracy in Ghana.
This is some of the most exciting stuff in development and democracy, where citizens on the edge of a network are helping to force open the process to make sure that the big global aid promises and vague stuff up at the top really delivers for people at a grassroots level and inverts that pyramid.
But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.
Democracy has suffered obvious setbacks in Venezuela, in Russia, in Turkey and is threatened by the rise of authoritarian populism in Eastern Europe and the United States.
Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy.
I want to talk to you today about something the open-source programming world can teach democracy, but before that, a little preamble.
When you make the claim, in fact, that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often get this reaction.
No democracy anywhere in the world offers this feature to its citizens for either legislation or for budgets, even though those are the things done with our consent and with our money.
Now, I would love to tell you that the fact that the open-source programmers have worked out a collaborative method that is large scale, distributed, cheap, and in sync with the ideals of democracy, I would love to tell you that because those tools are in place, the innovation is inevitable.
There's no democracy worth the name that doesn't have a transparency move, but transparency is openness in only one direction, and being given a dashboard without a steering wheel has never been the core promise a democracy makes to its citizens.
It's large, it's distributed, it's low-cost, and it's compatible with the ideals of democracy.
Secondly, a political theorist who's going to talk about the crisis of democracy is probably not the most exciting topic you can think about.
But in my view it very well captures part of the problem that we have with democracy in Europe these days.
On one level nobody's questioning that democracy is the best form of government.
Democracy is the only game in town.
So basically I want to ask: What went right and what went wrong in these 50 years when we talk about democracy?
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality.
The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.
And I find this very much disturbing when we're talking about what's going on right and wrong with democracy these days.
And when we're now trying to see how we can change the situation, when basically we're trying to see what can be done about democracy, we should keep this ambiguity in mind.
And by the way, mistrust was always very important for democracy.
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