Cloud culture : the future of global cultural relations

Pamphlet is about what happens when technology (mobile, open-source, 2.0) and cloud computing conspire to offer more access to more of everyone's culture, heritage and ideas than ever before. Charles Leadbeater outlines the promise and the step-change that is cloud computing - the results of linking all sorts of devices to one another, the unprecedented level of access to vast stores of cultural artefacts and the enormous potential for new forms of collaboration, grassroots mobilisation and multinational communities. Author asks what Cloud Culture will be like? Who will own the cloud? How can we keep it open? And how can it empower the world's poorest people?