Hacking Egypt For Better Democracy
from the not-just-the-outsiders dept
Having already covered how hackers from Anonymous have been taking part from afar in various
middle east uprisings, it's probably worth noting that some other folks are doing some cool hacking projects as well, including a
Hackathon for Egypt effort, that brought together hackers and activists to see if new technologies could be built that might be useful to implementing a more democratic system in Egypt. For example, some folks put together a platform for crowdsourcing the creation of a Constitution:
The conference's most intriguing result was a platform for crowdsourcing the new Egyptian constitution. The platform, which appears to have drawn inspiration from a similar project in Tunisia, allows users to simultaneously browse constitutional texts from multiple countries, propose articles and ideas online and to collaborate on compiling the ideas into a workable text. Owing to Egypt's special circumstances, the platform also contains extensive provisions for off-computer use--many Egyptians simply don't have regular access to either a computer or the Internet.
Who knows how effective these efforts will be (my guess is that, initially, they won't get much use), but it's still nice to see, and hopefully as we see projects like this grow, they'll become more effective and useful.
Filed Under: democracy, egypt, hacking
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History lesson for the day. The Phynx is 8000 years old but the Qur'an holy words detail out the age of man is only 6000 years old so it goes against there religion to actually detail this out. Look it up :) Then we wonder why Egypt doesn't want to find out whats in the chamber under its foot.
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Democracy is a ruse
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reposting your blog
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Sure, of course.
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