Technology Populism

Full Title or Meme

Technology Populism is “an adoption trend led by a technology-native workforce that self provisions collaborative tools, information sources, and human networks – requiring minimal or no ongoing support from a central IT organization”

Context

• Wikipedia defines Techno-populism as either a populism in favor of technocracy or a populism concerning certain technology – usually information technology – or any populist ideology conversed using digital media. It can be employed by single politicians or whole political movements respectively. Neighboring terms used in a similar way are technocratic populism, technological populism and cyber-populism. Italy’s Five Star Movement and France’s La République En Marche! have been described as technopopulist political movements.