This essay appeared originally in April in Quartz and is by Anya Schiffrin. “The US Ambassador no longer knows who to call,” often says Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton’s former advisor for technology. Certainly, conventional wisdom—cemented by the Arab Spring revolutions—holds that the Internet has dispersed the power of international organizations and governments, making crowd-sourced digital technology the new … Continue reading Quartz: Digital Technology isn’t Delivering the Democracy it Promised