Venstre 2.0

You may agree og disagree with Søren Pind as a politician, but he has some pretty interesting observations about web 2.0 and politics in Politiken today.

Basically Pind is saying that it is time for Venstre to move on from the (so far successful) "contractual politics" paradigm to a new 2.0 paradigm of politics, where negotiation and participation supersede the contractual relationship between politician and voter.

In the world of digiraties such statements are of course not news – web 2.0 has been around for a couple of years now, and talk about markets as conversations has been around even longer.

What is interesting is that this lingo has now found its way into and op-ed written by a politician in the somewhat technology disinclined paper pages of Politiken.

Søren Pind writes that Venstre is the only political party which is truly ready for web 2.0 because, according to him, Venstre is the only political party which is not focused on the past. Well – I think Venstre should take a look at Radikale.net and pay close attention to Socialdemokraterne who most definitely are going to copy some of the successful online campaigning methods from Obama’s presidential campaign.

Venstre definitely has the ideological potential to embrace web 2.0 but the political party seriously needs to shed the burden of contractual politics before it can move into the world of web 2.0.

And exactly that part may not be so easy to do…