[offtopic] Government and technology

[Ira Abramov]

Quoting sara fink, from the post of Sat, 07 Feb:
> HI Ira
> 
> Who is the party? What subjects you raised with them? What distro you are
> interested to install and what laws you intend to propose them?

Hi, sorry for the delay in replies, it's ben a crazy time these last few
weeks :-)

As some of you are bloggers and some are not,
And since this is getting off-topic as well,
I'll try to be brief, and link to the full info on other sites:
Technology must-haves in platforms:        http://hayeruka-meimad.org.il/technology
Story behind it:                           http://www.2jk.org/praxis/?p=1813
Why Social-democratic votes are important: http://www.2jk.org/praxis/?p=1866
They say bloggers are early adopters...    http://www.aplaton.co.il/story_513

(my own post on this will be online a little later today)

Basically, for me "Open Source" is not just a cool tech toy. I use the
term "Free Software" as part of the wider picture of individual freedoms
and sustainability. If those things are dear to you as a proponent of
freedom, if you are appaled like me by the idea of an Israeli DMCA,
communications' censorship, tomorrow is the once-in-3-years you get to
change something.

I drafted some basic pragmatic proposals regarding the role of
technology in the continuing problems caused by the lack of clearly
defined speech and privacy rights in Israel, the digital devide, the
social devides, and crumbling of the educational system, and of course
the stopping of the Biometric DB law, among other issues. I found people
that I could talk to and get excited about the ideas, and they are happy
to cooperate. Participatory democracy at work! This is what Free
Software is about, after all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy

If any of this bugs you, you know why you absolutely have to go out
tomorrow and vote for a Social-Democratic Ticket. It doesn't have to be
the far left, I talked to at least 4-5 people who voted Likud and
Liberman and will be voting Yeruka-Meimad this time. I hope whatever you
do, you can take a few minutes to consider what's really at stake, and
read their platform.

If you want to discuss this forther, I'll be talking to Sara and the
others who responded off-list, so please write me off-list if you want
to join in.

Thanks,
Ira.

-- 
Ira Abramov
http://ira.abramov.org/blog/