Dear Colleagues, On Asian e-government initiatives, is anyone taking a new e-look at political parties? The Forum Foundation has technology to replace 'yes-no' with a variety of options for debate on how to deal with a complex issue. Some of us here are therefore asking for political conventions that are designed for teaching and debate on a variety of options, with electronic connections to neighborhoods all over the country to encourage more such sophisticated debate also. For example, the issue is not whether to have health care or not, but how...and this means studying a variety of possibilities by connecting, for example, to people in other countries to get their experience with one option or another. Too much politics is top-down rather than encouraging debate and participation from the bottom-up which gives power to the people.
++++ Parker Rossman's online book <http://ecolecon.missouri.edu/globalresearch> is soon to be published also in China by a university press. It is about how to use the Internet to bring education, job training and health care to everyone on the planet. ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
