I’m an entrepreneurial twenty three year old, part of the team at we are social, a conversation agency based in London.
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Stealing from the incompetent and giving to the worthy.
The comments on this post on the Demos blog highlight a couple of interesting examples of constructive defiance of bureaucracy:
We were in Wakefield last week, talking to members of Wakefield Council, during which we discovered that a young Tory councillor (and I mean genuinely young — late 20s) was adopting exactly this approach.
Frustrated by what he saw as internal council bureaucracy (and working structures set up around the needs of retired not working age councillors), he banded together with his fellow ward councillors to pool their limited allocated funds into a ‘community chest’. Using this resource they have been able to distribute money to a variety of projects across the community, whilst bypassing cumbersome council mechanisms. The councillors were therefore able to respond nimbly to the needs of their ward and maintain vital community momentum, so often lost through drawn out approval processes.
Still, wouldn’t it be better for everyone if the bureaucracy wasn’t there in the first place?
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I’m an entrepreneurial twenty three year old, part of the team at we are social, a conversation agency based in London.
On this site, I blog mainly about communication, design, technology and the arts, and their impact on society. I also write the Skype blog.