Long the subject of late January guilt and remorse as one New Years’ resolution after another falls by the wayside, our yearly promises to ourselves might get a new lease of life as our smartphones and PCs keep us on the straight and narrow.

The term crowdsourcing wasn’t coined until the web age, undoubtedly because it enabled the collecting, aggregating and processing power we need to let crowdsourcing take full flight. Today it’s used for everything from judging the most attractive female posterior to gathering the funds to make movies.

A ‘digital program’ at a major arts festival might sound like a nightmare to some – a squawking cacophony of computer games, expensive websites built with grant money that nobody looks at and self-aggrandising video clips from people who think they’re artists.