Wednesday, May 04, 2005
GIS and Electronic Democracy
"The Democratic Divide" is an interesting article written by Stephanie Birdsall in First Monday. It's a report about the relationship between Internet Technology and Electronic Democracy. Which do you think is the result? Information by PoliticsBlog.
"Remote Internet voting has been proposed as a solution to low voter turnout. It is tempting to see the use of Internet technology by a large segment of the population as a quick fix for making the voting process more accessible to a larger number of people. This argument, however, demonstrates a disconnect with the reality of Internet use; that is, that it happens in a place. Internet use is not an ethereal, boundary-less activity, it is situated in a spatial/geographic context. Reviewing this geographic context using Geographic Information System technology can reveal the serious limitations of a "point and click" solution to improving political participation".
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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
GIS and Electronic Democracy
"The Democratic Divide" is an interesting article written by Stephanie Birdsall in First Monday. It's a report about the relationship between Internet Technology and Electronic Democracy. Which do you think is the result? Information by PoliticsBlog.
"Remote Internet voting has been proposed as a solution to low voter turnout. It is tempting to see the use of Internet technology by a large segment of the population as a quick fix for making the voting process more accessible to a larger number of people. This argument, however, demonstrates a disconnect with the reality of Internet use; that is, that it happens in a place. Internet use is not an ethereal, boundary-less activity, it is situated in a spatial/geographic context. Reviewing this geographic context using Geographic Information System technology can reveal the serious limitations of a "point and click" solution to improving political participation".
Technorati Tags: e-democracy, edemocracy, internet+technology, e-government, egovenrment, e-gov, egov, democratic+divide