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Now you don't need me to tell you how the internet has
eroded traditional information asymmetries.
We're all so used to talking about the democratization of
information that perhaps sometimes it's easy to forget
what a fundamental change it has brought about.
For centuries, literally centuries, access to the
world's information, and the ability to communicate it, was
controlled by an elite few, by the powerful, the wealthy, the
well-educated.
Today billions of people can access more information than
entire governments could access just a generation ago.
And of course, the globalization of these
information flows, thanks in large part to mobile internet
access in Sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the
developing world, is increasing every day.
This is rapidly eroding traditional power and
informational imbalances.
And it's irrevocably increasing the accountability
of politicians and governments to the people that they are
supposed to serve.
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