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Transcript of “Digital democracy” helen milner digital leaders annual lecture 24 february 2015
Helen MilnerChief Executive, Tinder FoundationCommissioner, Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy
Digital Democracy
Online conversations did drive street protests
• Conversations about liberty, democracy, and revolution on blogs and on Twitter did immediately precede mass protests
• 20% of blogs in Tunisia were evaluating Ben Ali’s leadership the day he resigned; 5% the month before
• 25 January 2011, Tahrir Square protests had 600,000 views on YouTube; 23 hyperlocal Egypt videos on the protests had 5.5 million views
• In the week up to Mubarak’s resignation, tweets from and about Egypt rose from 2,300 a day to 230,000 a day
Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring? University of Washington, 2011
UK spends most in world shopping online
• UK spends £2,000 per person online shopping, significantly higher than the next highest markets Australia (£1,356 per head) and the US (£1,171 per head).
• More than £1 in every £5 of UK retail spend (other than food) is now online.
We opened up our channels
• Input via email, video, a web survey, and a web comment thread
• Roundtable discussions • Interactions on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn• A letter to the vice chancellor of every university
in the UK• Online student forums • We held formal, open (and live-streamed)
evidence sessions of the Commission • We had informal meetings with a wide range of
people
Helen Milner@[email protected]