by I commented yesterday on a blog post by Ron Lubensky on his excellent blog ‘Deliberations’.
Ron had posted about the limitations of crowd sourcing in decision making because of its unrepresentative nature. I argued that this is why it is important to differentiate e democracy from e participation but that an e participation approach to crowd sourcing can be immensely valuable in the development of public policy.
Anyway, you can read Rob’s blog and my response there is no need for me to repeat it all here. What I wanted to do here is to draw attention to a podcast by @Shimmmergirl on her blog in which she interviews Senator Kate Lundy who has been in the vanguard of those championing e participation in Australia. In the interview Senator Lundy refers to the value to her of all the contributions being made to her blog on the clean feed issue. She clearly states that she knows this is not a representative sample but clearly finds the input invaluable nonetheless.
The interview is well worth a listen and I can highly recommend the blogs of both Shimmmergirl and Ron Lubensky.
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That's very kind of you, Matt! While it is important to critically ask questions, you remind me not to cast out the proverbial baby.