Government Articles

What Happened to ‘Yes we can’?

Whatever happened to the “we”? We haven’t heard about it since the 2008 victory. “They built the largest online community in the history of the presidency,” says Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Media, which tracks the intersection of technology and politics. “But then they stopped talking to them and engaging them”.

Liberal Convention Coverage Round Up

This weekend I had the pleasure of addressing the Biennial Convention for the Liberal Party of Canada, Canada's historical party. After three consecutive defeats, the Liberals are faced with the opportunity to reinvent themselves and become Canada's first 21st century...

Part Two: My 20 Big Ideas for 2012

In Egypt and Tunisia we saw a revolution in how to foment revolutions. Now we need to reinvent how to build democracies. Enabled by social media, anti-government leadership in these two countries came from the people themselves rather than a traditional vanguard.

Don Tapscott