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livingroom_100x113.jpgIn 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting,  which specializes in the analysis of how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in social change campaigns in developing countries.  I have researched and written reports on topics ranging from online citizen journalism to blog advocacy and internet censorship.  I have also performed in-country Internet monitoring and international conference organizing. 

You can contact me at MaryCJoyce AT gmail DOT com.

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Chile Primero's got the right vision

Posted by Mary on 12/06/2007 at 12:21

movement founder Fernando Flores speaks at the launch event a month ago.

 

I know that it's currently just a movement, but Chile Primero could become my kind of political party. I see the ubiquity of communications technology (everyone has a cell phone, everyone has an e-mail account) as the future of politics and Fernando Flores, the movement's founder, clearly sees this too. The party seems honestly concerned with revolutionizing politics and how citizens interact with their governments, and I find this very exciting because that's what I am interested in too.

Of the different elements of creating a political party, the one that interests me most is the website and I've been talking to the people who are involved in it to see how I can participate. I'm really enthusiastic about their plans for the site (though I'll ask their permission before blogging about those plans.) I'm meeting with the website director, Alberto Precht, tomorrow and then I'll have a better idea of my role.

My goal is to learn how digital politics works in practice and I think I could learn a lot from being involved in Chile Primero.


strange name for a progressive party

Sent by bicyclemark on 14/06/2007 at 06:22 AM
That first odd thing that strikes me, just about the name of this campaign: chile primero.. is that is sounds very right wing/populist.  Example in Russia, I think there's a Russia first party.. matter of fact I think it's the oligarch-in-chief's party.  anyway just a surface observation, they chose a name that smacks of xenophobia, populism, and the opposite of what you'd hope for.

I know

Sent by on 10/03/2008 at 04:36 PM
Constanza Sturm

I know Fernando Flores seems to be very interested in new technologies and that he probably is - he claimed to have a level 70 human paladin in World of Warcraft, I wonder how he had the time to do that.

But I don't share his political ideas.

You're right, probably the interaction between citizens and governments is the future (it's probably the present, really), but I don't think it depends from a party for the movement to develope... it's likely all parties will include this. Sebastián Piñera has a facebook account, for example. Flores doesn't. Maybe he will, eventually. But my point is everyone will be joining the politics 2.0 sooner or later...


I'm

Sent by on 11/03/2008 at 06:09 PM
Mary
I'm not sure that everyone will join politics 2.0, but I think that people who do will benefit.






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