This idea was around how to rejuvinate democracy from the bottom up, and how to go about doing this in a more disruptive way than through the ‘usual channels’. We looked at possibilities of supporting existing ‘lynchpin’/local activists to engage online as social reporters. This would mean arming them with the skills to interview and record their locale in a meaningful way, and to make their issues visible to others using self-broadcasting web-based approach.
You might want to check out socialreporter (David Wilcox’s blog) for further thoughts on the social reporting.
IpsosMori’s socio-political influencers work around how influence works in participative context is also relevant here.
