Citizenville Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age

Gavin Newsom, Lisa Dickey

eBook - 2013

“Citizenville offers both an impassioned plea for more tech-enabled government and a tour d'horizon of the ways some governments have begun using technology to good effect... a fast-paced and engaging read” —San Francisco ChronicleA rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better. Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California, argues that today’s government is stuck in the last century while—in both the private sector and our personal lives—absolutely everything else has changed. The explosion of social media, the evolution of Internet commerce, the ubiquity of smart phones that can access all the world’s informati...on; in the face of these extraordinary advances, our government appears increasingly irrelevant and out of touch.Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with thinkers and politicians,... more