Don't sniff at clicktivism, says new British boss at Change.org
by Jessica Elgot from Technology | The Guardian on (#JPMQ)
New managing director for Europe points to petition website's successes and asks what the 'chatterati' are doing beyond whingeing about problems
Clicktivism - using the internet to take direct action to achieve a political or social aim - could be one of the only ways we have left to change the world, a senior boss at Change.org has said.
Simon Willis, the online petition site's new British managing director for Europe, said the cynical "dinner party chatterati" sniffed at online petitions as the campaign style of the chronically lazy or the baying mob.
