“Sous-veillance” will see video sharing sites such as YouTube used by citizens to shine a spotlight on things such as deadly hygiene lapses in hospital wards and uncollected rubbish, according to the European Information Society Group (Eurim).
The vision of the “public monitoring the state” and shaming them into action using cameraphones is one of several key ways that Eurim says technology can be used to transform government and empower the public.
Its report says: “New web applications such as YouTube or Patient Opinion enable people to monitor the state and to be heard. People can easily post videos of dirty hospital wards, of uncollected rubbish or of pot holes in the road, to a world-wide audience.
“Sous-veillance might transform political engagement due to its ease of use, by engaging even the time-poor majority and extending citizenship beyond the usual special interest groups.”
read more at Silicon.com in Nick Heath post on the public sector
“Sous-veillance” will see video sharing sites such as YouTube used by citizens to shine a spotlight on things such as deadly hygiene lapses in hospital wards and uncollected rubbish, according to the European Information Society Group (Eurim).
The vision of the “public monitoring the state” and shaming them into action using cameraphones is one of several [...]
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@ 13:03
Gerrit: In the age of information, the rich, the powerful and the authoritative surprisingly find that they can keep no secrets. Therefore putative secrets become liabilities. Smart people make themselves and their organizations transparent to the public. What do you think? –Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html
@ 10:41
I have put some musings on education and how this might affect the institution on my blog.
Basically a note to say that it can be shaped by the first entry into the marketplace.
Just think about Rate My Professor and how we would do it today… capture video in class, edit it and post it before the day is over with opposing viewpoints linked and rated by the rest of the class.