<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Letter in reply to <a href="http://realdemocracymovement.org/the-power-and-the-potential-of-the-social-movement-behind-corbyn/">http://realdemocracymovement.org/the-power-and-the-potential-of-the-social-movement-behind-corbyn/</a><div></div><div><br></div><div><ol class="commentlist" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 65px; padding: 0px;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-gerrygold even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(231, 230, 230); border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; padding: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px;"><div class="the-comment" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);"><div class="avatar" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: 25px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cae9c22dd432dc13f166ffe524732362?s=54&d=identicon&r=g" srcset="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/cae9c22dd432dc13f166ffe524732362?s=108&d=identicon&r=g 2x" class="avatar avatar-54 photo" height="54" width="54" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; vertical-align: top; max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;"></span></div><div class="comment-box" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="comment-author meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://realdemocracymovement.org/" rel="external nofollow" class="url" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Gerry Gold</a></strong><span class="sep" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 5px; position: relative; bottom: 3px;">|</span> 30th August 2016 at 10:20 am<a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-login" href="http://realdemocracymovement.org/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Frealdemocracymovement.org%2Fthe-power-and-the-potential-of-the-social-movement-behind-corbyn%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;">Log in to Reply</a></span></div><div class="comment-text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today, Jeremy Corbyn launched his digital democracy manifesto. It will not only democratise the internet but use digital technologies to revolutionise the process of democracy. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here’s a summary of the Digital Democracy manifesto : </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Universal Service Network – We will deliver high speed broadband and mobile connectivity for every household, company and organisation in Britain from the inner city neighbourhoods to the remotest rural community.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open Knowledge Library – We will create a free-to-use on-line hub of learning resources for the National Education Service.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Platform Cooperatives – We will foster the cooperative ownership of digital platforms for distributing labour and selling services. The National Investment Bank and regional banks will help to finance social enterprises whose websites and apps are designed to minimise the costs of connecting producers with consumers in the transport, accommodation, cultural, catering and other important sectors of the British economy.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Digital Citizen Passport – We will develop a voluntary scheme that provides British citizens with a secure and portable identity for their on-line activities. The Digital Citizen Passport will be used when interacting with public services like health, welfare, education and housing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">Programming For Everyone – We will require that all publicly funded software and hardware is released under an Open Source licence.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A People’s Charter of Digital Liberty Rights – We will launch a public consultation with people and parties across the political spectrum to draw up a digital bill of rights.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Massive Multi-Person On-line Deliberation – We will utilise information technologies to make popular participation in the democratic process easy and inclusive. We will aim to organise both online and offline meetings for individuals and communities to deliberate about pressing political issues and participate in devising new legislation.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All in all this is an exciting set of proposals. But there’s plenty missing. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most of all the party under Corbyn’s leadership needs to develop a bold new system of social ownership for the entire digital infrastructure. What’s urgently needed is a not-for-profit replacement for the insane global competition that seeks to exploit the networks and storage in the Cloud, and uses all of our individual identities as commodities for sale, targets for advertising by the highest bidder. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let’s look further to co-operative ownership for all of the global networks – not just the information service providers, but extending its reach to financial services including banking. That will require a Corbyn-led government to work with other similar-minded governments throughout the world to implement a new form of co-operative globalisation – not to coexist with but to <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">replace</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"> the domination of the global economy by rapacious transnational corporations and vulture funds.</em></span></p></div></div></div></li></ol></div></body></html>