Are Old Ways of Government Engagement With Citizens Out-dated?

Yesterday over two million UK-based citizens decided that they wanted their voice to be heard, but unfortunately the sheer weight of numbers crashed the UK Petition site:

Each, perhaps, wanted their voice to be heard, and not be part of the ‘we represent the people’. For each it was an instance of time that they wanted their voice to be heard, and just waiting for the next vote to come along.

For our new generations, the Internet is just the default, and everything can be fast and electronic. Why wait for give years to let your voice be heard, when you can poll every citizen in an instance, and gather the real ‘will of the people’? For many to hear the statements of the ‘will of the people’ and ‘I represent the people’, have been said so many times to present a single vote that happened at an instance of time. Overall it just doesn’t seem to reflect this fast moving society, which could understand the true will of the people at any instance in time. Is what really is democracy in the 21st Century?

And so in this new information age, we thus need to move away from our traditional ways of citizen engagement around…