community-based, non-corporate, participatory media
Make your local government more transparent.
by crazybananacremepie
Saturday, Mar. 26, 2005 at 6:40 AM
crazybananacremepie@yahoo.com (email address validated)
This is a great idea by a British blogger to encourage local representatives to engage in open dialogue with their constituents through a blog. He has already been successful in at least one case.
Tim Ireland has started proxy-blogging for a Minister of Parliament to show MPs the power and ease of blogging. His proxy-blog is confrontational, but he has suggested most need not be, but rather keep track of local representatives' issues until the representatives take over themselves. I think this is great for increasing dialouge, transparency and ultimately democracy.
This would make a great project for a government, social issues or communications major or activist. The project probably requires a bit of dedication and research, but Tim provides easy step-by-step directions on his call-for-action page. He already has one success story, Sandra Gidley, Liberal Democrat MP for Romsey.
www.bloggerheads.com/mps_weblogs.asp
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