Open source politics - Definition and Overview

Open source politics is term used to describe the political process by using internet technologies such as blogs and email, to provide for a rapid feedback mechanism between political organizations and their supporters.

It is most closely associated with the 2004 Presidential Campaign of Howard Dean and to a lesser extent with the Draft Clark movement. It has since become used by a number of activist groups to describe the process of creating input.

Sources

• Micah Sifry on Open Source Politics (http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041122&s=sifry)
• Slate on Howard Dean and Open Source Politics (http://slate.msn.com/id/2090927/)
• Garrance Franke-Ruta of The American Prospect on Open Source Politics (http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=6876)

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