Dave en el Google Zeitgeist conference

David Cameron dio un notable discurso en el Google Zeitgeist conference 2007 en California. El lider conservador argumentó que en la época tecnológica actual, donde las personas están cada vez más empoderadas por las posiblidades que entrega internet y la telefonía mobil, es absurdo continuar en la lógica de hacer política de arriba-abajo donde el estado juega un rol centralizador sobre la vida de los ciudadanos. Es tiempo que esta "era burocrática", donde el poder se ha alejado de las personas y de las realidades locales, de paso a una "era post-burocrática" donde la responsabilidad, la ciudadanía, la capacidad de elección y el control local lideren el proceso político. En síntesis, política 2.0.

Y dice así:

"Last year I had the great pleasure of speaking to the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference.
Amazingly enough, you asked me back and I just want to start by saying what a tremendous honour it is to be here with you today.
Between you, you are responsible for a large portion of the wonders of our modern world…from the technology we use, to the products and services we rely on, to the innovations that improve the quality of billions of people's lives.
You create jobs, wealth and opportunity for our world and you should be proud of the amazing things you accomplish every single day.

Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of all is not something specific to any of the individual organisations represented here…
…but something that is the collective result of all your endeavours.
And that is the new world of freedom we live in today.
A world where people have more power and control over their own lives.
A world where people's horizons are broader and their ambitions are greater.
And a world where people expect to make more and more decisions for themselves.

Right at the heart of this new world of freedom is freedom of information - in the broadest meaning of that term.
In recent years technological advance - supported by a liberal regulatory regime - has transformed the amount of information that's available…
…the number of people who can get hold of it…
…and the ease with which they can do so.

As you have been debating at this conference, sharing information opens up tremendous possibilities for individuals and for business.
We can see it in the astonishing explosion of bottom-up content creation, revealing the vast pent-up desire that people have to express themselves and take control.
We can see it in the way leading corporations, including many of you here, are totally changing business models in order to allow personalisation of products and services…
…and the harnessing of talent and ideas through formal and informal networks that extend way beyond the walls of the firm.

Now I won't pretend to be an expert in those matters.
What I would like to do is give you my perspective on what these changes could mean for politics and government…
…for our sense of citizenship, both local and global…
…and for the responsibilities of politicians.

But most of all, what these changes can do for the thing I care about most: the politics of responsibility.
Because I believe that we are today on the brink of an entirely new era in public policy: the post-bureaucratic era.

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