 So in January this year, Sangh Priya Rahul, he's a student of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, he decided that he wanted to get his driving license. So he went over to the regional transport office and submitted his application and as is usually the case in most government offices in India, he was asked for a bribe. Rahul refused to pay a bribe and what happened next is really horrifying. The RTO officials ganged up on him and started to physically assault him and as he was down on the floor being punched and kicked by these officials for refusing to pay a bribe, he managed to take out his cell phone and make a recording of his ordeal. A couple of days later, along with his roommate, he uploaded this video to YouTube and started a petition on our platform change.org and this was then shared with the college networks. Over a week, around 450 people signed this and one of the people who signed decided to make a video calling the district magistrate, asking the district magistrate what action he had taken on these officials. This video was then shared on YouTube and around 30 to 40 calls were made to the district magistrate. Now these are not big numbers, 450 signatures, 30-40 calls, but this level of bureaucrat in India has never faced this sort of public pressure and he buckled under it. In a week, he had suspended three officials, he had installed anti-corruption signboards across the RTO and he had promised to ensure regular checks at the RTO to make sure that it remained corruption free. And just a small group of people doing this and my hope is that Puneet's corrupt God theory is not deeply embedded in the Indian consciousness and we will be able to bring about these changes and it's not just in India, across the world you see people are using the internet, they're using mobile technology to bring down oppressive regimes, to change failing democratic institutions, whether it's from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring. And the problem we've had with our democracy till now is it's not really active and participatory. It's been representative democracy, which means that we choose representatives to take our views to a legislative assembly and make policy. But most often this is not the case, they don't do what we want and we live in this illusion that you know you go and you cast your vote once every four or five years and this will change things but actually the whole process is controlled by vested interests and it's really top-down power. We have not changed too much from the old monarchy, we live under this facade of democracy and it's kind of like the pyramid where the government and vested interests control the population below. But when I saw images from Tharir Square, I realized that what's happening is the pyramid is slowly being inverted and now what's happening is people power is coming to the top and people are being able to make decision-makers, whole decision-makers accountable and now elected officials will truly be public servants at the bottom of the pyramid upholding the people's mandate and this is possible with digital technology. We've seen you know democracy evolve over the last 2,500 years from the ancient Greek Senate where the common citizen had no clue about what was happening in the Senate to the invention of the printing press where news was able to be disseminated to the public and then we've had in the 18th century trade unions and we've had non-governmental institutions that become another pillar of the people's voice but all these institutions still have the problem that it's the few representing the many but now finally we have entering an era where each individual voice can be amplified and in an instant transmitted across continents. You know 15 years ago it was not possible for an individual to know what their government was doing in private but now we have WikiLeaks. Ten years ago it was not possible for people from across the world to collaboratively create consensus but last year the Occupy movement managed to create a charter of demands online using Google documents. So we we seeing this and this is something very interesting with my day-to-day work. I see that people across India are using change.org and other platforms to be able to tackle the system and fix our broken democracy and people are banding together and taking action whether it's a housewife in Bangalore supporting a teacher in a rural district who hasn't got paid for years because of corruption or whether it's a businessman in Mumbai supporting an activist who has been detained under false charges or whether it's a man who is petitioning his wife to stop troubling her mother-in-law. We have we have those sort of petitions on the site as well but the point being that as more and more people get online as there's increased internet and mobile penetration we are coming closer and closer to actualizing the ideals of democracy where we will truly have governance that is by the people for the people and of the people. We are on the brink of a digital democracy.