Is 2017 the year for a more democratic, engaging and safe democracy? Lots has changed the last 100 years, but there is one important pillar of society that hasn’t: politics. In 2017, we have all this amazing technology, but we don’t use it with our democracy.

Jong Barnes is the author of "Democracy Squared: A digital revolution that's about to democratize democracy" and is a guest lecturer in Digital Transformation on the world's 3rd leading Exec MBA program. He is a radical minimalist and splits his time between Brighton and the French Alps.

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