*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** I understand that when Gore was asked if he would consider an Oval Office webcam he said he would consider it. - SLC ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:45:42 -0400 From: Greg Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steven Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [DW] Thought you might be interested in this little item from today's Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline, if you haven't seen it already: LATVIAN FINANCE MINISTER PROMOTES WEBCAM FOR TRANSPARENCY. Gundars Berzins is the first of the People's Party's five cabinet ministers to have a 24-hour web camera in his office, BBC Online reported on 24 October. The webcam is hosted by the People's Party website at http://www.tautaspartija.lv/ministry/. People's Party spokesman Jurgis Liepniks said that it is important for people to "see what politicians do every day, how many hours they work" to provide more transparency in government for what he called an increasingly disillusioned public. --Greg Pearson The World Justice Information Network http://www.wjin.net ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. Clift - W: http://www.publicus.net Minneapolis - - - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota - - - - - T: +1.612.822.8667 USA - - - - - - - ICQ: 13789183 *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To unsubscribe instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. ***
