Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
This is something I have been advocating as long as I have been advocating things: "Democracy and freedom are coming to business." My view is that a nation is not democratic unless its institutions are demcratic, and these institutions include businesses and institutions (which are currently run as dictatorships or fiefdoms). The change, argues Tom Malone in his new book, The Future of Work, comes about because of information technology. And "this change may be as important for business as the change to democracy has been for government." And it may be as effective - if democracy is actually the best form of governance, why don't we use it in our institutions?

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