https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/ Social media for social good since 2005 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:28:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/#comment-2217 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:28:59 +0000 https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/#comment-2217 […] The PodNosh blog says here:“I agree with Paul about the web being a great place to generate ideas, but these ideas will come from those who choose to join the debate. they won’t reflect public opinion and in truth a wide ranging debate on all areas of public policy can already be found on the web. All the government would need to do is to seed it with some key (and rasnparently from them/it) questions and stay in the conversation, not aloof from it.” […]

]]> https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/#comment-2216 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:46:29 +0000 https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/#comment-2216 […] I know what he means although it is a little bit unfair on OK – I told a couple of CiFers how I felt. However there are also  constructive reflections popping up across blogland such as a thoughtful one from Podnosh who also links to the connected republic. Jon is away in Florence we’ll post up more of the responses when we can. But CAN YOU HEAR ME? […]

]]> https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/#comment-2215 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:28:50 +0000 https://podnosh.com/blog/2008/03/27/does-government-have-ears-enough/#comment-2215 Thanks for this helpful overview. I agree that the Tom Steinberg is implicitly a response to the mails I sent out! Of course we are not trying to influence government policy in the sense that he has attempted, we aim for a debate that wioll be useful for any country/

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