The democratizing potential of advances in communication technology
The birth of social networking tools like blogging, and the creation of multi-user content generation, through ground-up projects like Wikipedia and YouTube—where the content of the site, the action on the site, and real world consequences are determined by the people who use the Internet—have advanced the possibility of a 21st century form of participatory democracy. Dropping Knowledge harnesses the best of the democratic potential of the Internet and other communication tools not simply to create a website that caters to the well connected, but to use the growing interoperability of communication tools to connect people throughout the world through the technology they have at hand.
