About Charles Leadbeater: Charles Leadbeater is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair.
You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it's your issue, there are now new ways of mobilising knowledge that weren't there before. There are real bodies of signi...
People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly...
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.