Obama wants more participation thanks to the net.

The next tenant of White House would have to bring with them their passion for the internet. Barak Obama wants to promote the participation of the net between the government directly to the citizens.

The Internet has been a strategic element in the campaign of Barack Obama, so much for the recruitment of volunteers as well as the diffusion of messages and videos. He has expressed his enthusiasm without concealing new technology. Now it remains to see how the internet will be integrated into his exercise.

Following the questions, “are the team of Obama going to use a large database that has been formed during the electoral campaign to obtain support from the government?” questioned Julie Germany, director of the democracy and internet institute at the George Washington university.

“For example, we could send messages or try to call groups that are influenced by the members of congress about what will work in administration” he explained.

Mica Sifry, founder of Techpresident.com, a blog about politics and the internet confirmed that Obama will find involvement from the citizens on the internet because it is interesting. “The people are more motivated to support the order of the president if they think it is his own agenda” assured Sifry who believes that Obama is going to realise the more he leaves to the supporters, the more power he will have.”

Thus the change that has already been put into motion in Change.gov, an open site for the participation on the net during the process of transition between the term of office of Bush and of Obama. Obama will take possession of the presidency of EEUU on the 20th January next year.

The site invites its users to share their vision of the future of the country and not forgetting to ask those who participate in various dates that are enlarging the date base that managed to collaborate the elected president.

Craig Newmark, founder of the popular news site Craigslist.com and consultant of Obama for new technologies,says the use of the internet can help make the government more open and receptive.

Newmark recalls that in New York and San Francisco there is a program called 311, a customer service for the local governments. It is the matter of the telephone and that one can call if there is any problem with the local administration. Newmark proposes to extend this program to the whole government in the United States.

Powerful instrument

The ex director of the Internet services of White House, David Almacy, assured that the internet is a “powerful instrument” for the president of the United States and in particular ” in order to communicate the agenda of the president”

“The Internet is a spokesperson open 7 days a week and 24 hours a day”, ” whilst we sleep, everything is available for those that are looking for legislation on the subject of energy or information about the war against terrorism or the conflict of Iraq.”

Nevertheless, Almacy who promoted the site Whitehouse.gov during his two years in White House showed that the administration of Obama will have a limited margin to manoeuvre the use of the internet, such as the impossibility to use “cookies” and the use of psychology in a wary public.

Source: http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2008/11/10/tecnologia/1226322287.html

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