We have a problem. Our democracy is broken, we distrust politicians, despair at the rise of bureaucracy and we feel ignored. Andy Williamson challenges us improve how our representatives are chosen, policy is made, budgets allocated and services delivered. And to do this, he says we need to rebuild democracy so it becomes inviting, inclusive and above all intimate.

2. are you satisfied with our current
system of government?
27%

3. We’ve not lost
interest in doing.
We’ve lost
faith in
systems that
don’t
represent us.

4. TRUS
we have to re-build

5. Let’s get democracy out of the council
chamber and onto the streets. Plug
democracy into the places people
go: online, public spaces even
supermarkets.

7. democracy as a
networked
ecosystem
share the power.
open your data.
crowdsource the answers.
coproduce the result.
learn all the time.