Helen Milner OBE @TICTeC2016: The digital divide: why civic tech leaves 3 billion people behind
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2016-06-08

The chasm between the digital haves and the have-nots has never been more evident. As politicians tweet and new apps aim to open the doors to democracy, are we all missing the point? Worse: could civic tech be nothing more than an amusing pastime of the middle classes?

TRANSCRIPT: The transcript of this video is too long to include on a YouTube page, so we've put it on this public document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N6cA-mnV2QJVCmIbE5Q2lbA3-vT3bidTIyfSblXE0eg/edit

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mySociety hosted The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) on 27 and 28 April 2016 in Barcelona. 

This video was taken during Helen Milner OBE's keynote speech. Helen is the Chief Executive of the Tinder Foundation. is from the University of Pennsylvania. 

TICTeC2016 bought together 140 people from 29 different countries. 

It was the second in an annual series of conferences from mySociety, focusing on the impact that civic technology and digital democracy are having upon citizens, decision makers and governments around the world.

To find out more about TICTeC please visit: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/