Extensible Mash Up

Being interactive just for the sake of it.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Too much pressure

The Hansard Society have criticised the UK Parliament website.

Putting the 'e' in front of democracy has undoubedly created real opportunities to improve governance. Pressure groups have changed some aspects of their work almost beyond recognition.

But if there is one aspect in which us techies have let civil society down, it is the way that we've allowed representative democracy become the poor relation.