Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.