Show Notes
Introducing Simon Wright
I don’t remember much from my history class as a 10-year old, and my year seven class put me off history for a long time.
It's only recently, as I've started to learn more about Māori that I've come to appreciate that history is story. And history is context. And context and stories are everything when you're trying to work with a community to enable change.
In today’s little bonus episode (or Episode 41B) we're going back to my conversation with Simon Wright on the history of democracy.
For better or worse, we seem to take our democracy for granted. The idea of representative democracy that we, the people, vote others in to make laws for us to govern us.
So Simon take us back in time to the roots of our democracy - to Rome, to Greece - and unpacks the implications for us today.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Are we questioning and discussing our current democratic system enough?
How the power of democracy should be demonstrated in the decisions that are being made - not just the elections that are held.
Resources mentioned in this episode
Simon’s LinkedIn profile
The Reframe Programme by Business Lab
Ep 41 - Mass digital participation, with Simon Wright
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