Good steps toward a direct democratie —
March 9, 2010 - 2:15am
This is a terrific living exemple of democratie in making !
http://tc.presencing.com/posts/americaspeaks-engaging-citizens-governanc...
Is this going on in Canada ?
I think it realy should be and this system is probably all developped and ready to be installed in other places.
I will report reactions I get showing this to town officials.
- S
Everything an aspiring teabagger could hope for, complete with its own custom spell checker.
Hi blanc.
To answer your question, no.
And, um, I clicked your link. My succinct response is: yikes. Please don't misquote me to the town officials.
Everything an aspiring teabagger could hope for, complete with its own custom spell checker.
I dunno, sounds like a francophone to me. Some slack ought to be cut.
I will report reactions I get showing this to town officials.
Tu viens d'où? Je veux savoir les opinions des officiels.
Do you currently attend any form of town meetings where you live? If so, what do you feel are the principle factors helping or inhibiting the spirit of democracy to truly thrive in your town?
Je suis de retour à Granby depuis peu de temps et présentement ce n'est pas le moment venu d'aller voir les officiels avec ceci à l'hôtel de ville car il se trame un référendum pour un projet d'arena et ils sont ultra occupés en conséquence. C'est durant la semaine prochaine ou la suivante que j'y irai probablement leur en parler.
I live in Granby and just moved back there so I do not currently attend meetings and it is not the right timing to go discuss of this right now with officials since they are overwhelmed by the huge referendum about to take place for another arena. I will go next week or the other but I could always go see other little towns nearby.
I think individualism and the fact that people have gotten into networked and information society makes it more difficult for things to go on localy.
I interpret this as possibly meaning two tings, or maybe a bit of both:
1) Networked/information society provides such an easy form of excape from peoples daily realities that they are happy to just ignore the personal problems going on around them.
2) There are enough self-interested people who have a sufficient level of personally comfort that they don't see much to gain by helping to make things better for everyone and prefer to spend there time in what idle entertainment that can find.
Is that more or less what you are talking about?