Key Term - Creative Democracy

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Did John Dewey coin the term 'creative democracy' in his 1939 essay The Task Before Us?
Is it applicable to Cybersyn project by Stafford Beer for an electronic democracy in Chile in 1970?
In 1998, John Chris Jones used the term for a book Creative Democracy, with extended notes to the future
Today it is increasingly associated with the emergence of altruistic, collaborative networks.
For example, the Creative Commons movement.
Perhaps we can find the political origins of these tendencies in anarchism.
The role of design in the process is less than straightforward.
John Chris Jones has made a number of contributions to the idea of creative democracy (e.g.design methods for everyone)
This trend seems likely to continue (see sixteen ways of thinking about web design).

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