Barack Obama calls on digital media to find ways to help people re-engage with democracy
President Barack Obama has challenged tech entrepreneurs and digital media practitioners to work with government to solve issues facing society today.
President Barack Obama gave a keynote talk at SXSW
The call came as part of an on-stage interview at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, where President Obama told the audience: “The reason I’m here really is to recruit all of you.
“It is to say to you as I’m about to leave office – how can we start coming up with new platforms, new ideas, new approaches… to solve some of the big problems we are facing today.”
Obama is so woefully out of touch. His predictable wind-bag generalisations, signifying nothing, and achieving nothing, other than to pump-up his narcissistic self gratification. Along with Nixon and Carter, he will not be missed.
Thanks Mike. Your political prognostications represent probably the best chance of salvation for the western world.
If there is one area ripe for disruption it’s politics.
We are about to spend $500million on a plebiscite on gay marriage. You could do that online for $500,000 That money should be going to CSIRO to keep jobs, or hospitals or…
If we lived in a real democracy where everyone had equal say and governments were representing the people then most of this lot of politicians would never be voted for. As long as wealthy individuals and corporations control the media and/or make donations to Labor and LNP in order to secure support for their businesses objectives we will never have a true democracy.
Disrupting Democracy means
1: Everyone’s voice carries equal weight. One wealthy Billionaire can’t shout so loud across all media channels and drown out the voices of an entire nation.
2: End donations to political parties, make it a criminal offense, because that’s what it is after all, bribery.
3: Grass roots – We should all get to vote on individual issues like gay marriage and sending kids to detention centres. We don’t need politicians to decide for us, if we have good and balanced information.
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