The paper ‘Political Change in the Digital Age: The Fragility and Promise of Online Organising’ was given by a team of authors from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It was published for the first time on December 9, 2010. Along with portions of this paper, we are publishing the opinion of Jillian York, a Coordinator of this Center, which is dedicated to the recent revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, as well as the role played by social media in these particular events.