This means that we need a new form of politics that puts a new form of leadership at its heart, one that facilitates rather than directs, convenes rather than controls. …

In handing people power we cannot just let existing inequalities be replicated or further entrenched. This means ensuring that people can take part in new structures of power, no matter what their background is. …

When you open your structures, whether it’s a service or a government, to receive feedback — you become better able to listen and pick up on signals that a system is failing or that the needs of the people are changing. …

We need to create opportunities where people can work together to co-create new systems and interventions to solve the problems they face. In government this might mean working with citizens and the groups they form to co-design projects or services from the beginning. Let’s go back to our example of…

Information, or knowledge, has a value and thus control of information or knowledge is a way of exerting power or influence. …

If people have spaces, online or offline to congregate and work together they can create power. This means that at all levels in our workplaces, institutions and in our services, people should have ways and the space to create their own networks or communities in which they can come together…

“I do think we need a new system…but I don’t know what the answers are to do that. A lot of the way that we currently practice power feels tokenistic. For example once a petition gets over a certain amount of signatures it is debated in parliament but this is…