By integrating democratic government with cutting-edge American innovation, the lieutenant governor of California charts a bright future for citizens using new digital tools to transform American democracy.
The 49th Governor of California demonstrates how technology is changing how everyday citizens communicate with the government, revealing how digital tools are enabling people to gain access to government data and actively participate in governance, drawing on wide-ranging interviews with thinkers and politicians while tracking the author's efforts to apply innovative solutions to 21st-century problems.
?A fascinating case for a more engaged government, transformed to meet the challenges and possibilities of the twenty-first century. ?President William J. Clinton
A 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 todays government is stuck in the last century while in both the private sector and our personal lives absolutely everything else has changed. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with thinkers and politicians, Newsom shows how Americans can transform their government, taking matters into their own hands to dissolve political gridlock even as they produce tangible changes in the real world. Citizenville is a timely road map for restoring American prosperity and for reinventing citizenship in todays networked age.
A fascinating case for a more engaged government, transformed to meet the challenges and possibilities of the twenty-first century. President William J. ClintonA 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 todays government is stuck in the last century whilein both the private sector and our personal livesabsolutely everything else has changed. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with thinkers and politicians, Newsom shows how Americans can transform their government, taking matters into their own hands to dissolve political gridlock even as they produce tangible changes in the real world.
Citizenville is a timely road map for restoring American prosperity and for reinventing citizenship in todays networked age.
