"Since the Occupy movement broke out last September, a number of us Drupalfolks have been hard at work on a large, Drupal-based social network built specifically for large social movements, particularly Occupy. It's gotten mainstream press coverage in Wired and the Village Voice already, and is pretty well embedded as a known, ongoing project in the movement itself. (Those articles really do give some good background) And if you know anything about how movements work, you know that such buy-in is no small thing."

"Digital communities may be able to offer what bureaucrats can’t—from moral support and firsthand experience to a stronger civil society. “We are seeing a transformation of the public sector,” says Albert Jacob Meijer, an associate professor of public administration and policy sciences at the Utrecht School of Governance.