Does BCCDIY risk devaluing digital marketing? →
“The project is an open source approach to designing a city council website using a user-centred philosophy.”
“I would say that having a strong open-source community adopting that thinking in a city is a good thing.”
“This blog itself is built on the open source Wordpress platform, which was put together by Matt Mullenweg and an army of volunteers. On one hand you could say that releasing an easy to use blogging platform harmed the industry - businesses at that point were building their own commercial systems and subsequently lost clients and saw budgets reduce.”
“On the other it is easier to argue that systems like Wordpress offer a set of tools that enable commercial activity built on them, create jobs, and expand the numbers of people who use digital media tools, and thus leading to higher demand for digital services like marketing.”
