Issy-les-Moulineaux, France - PoliticsOnline and the 4th World Forum on e- Democracy announce the results of its second world wide survey recognizing the top 25 individuals, organizations and companies that are having the greatest impact on the way the Internet is changing politics.
In recent years, the Internet and burgeoning information technologies have inexorably altered our body politic, fundamentally changing the way we do democracy. On Friday, at the 4th Annual Worldwide Forum on Electronic Democracy, PoliticsOnline recognized the best of the best -- the innovators and pioneers who blaze the e-political trails.
Howard Rheingold www.rheingold.com In his book Virtual Community and Smart Mobs, he has written about many of the ideas that have inspired the current changes in politics. Rhinegold has been thinking and writing about the digital future for over 20 years and his involvement dated to The Well and he was the first Executive Editor of Hotwired.