> Hello, > > I found this link *http://destour.org *on the Wikipedia-ar mailing list, > and thought it might interest people who don't speak Arabic as well. > This is a Wiki inviting Tunisian citizens to write the country's new > constitution the Wiki way. The site is entirely in Arabic and it > includes a constitution draft, which the Tunisian public is supposed to > change and amend collaboratively. According to their "about", this is an > initiative of the Tunisian Internet Association (/Jam'iyat Tunis > lil-Internet/), which is a non-official non-profit Tunisian > organization. According to them, the project is run by volunteers. > > To be honest, I don't give much chance to this initiative, but it is an > interesting development nonetheless. As far as I remember, Florence told > me about similar initiative in France by the French government, but it > seems to be the first of its kind in the Arab world. Perhaps the close > cultural ties between Tunisia and France played a role here, but this is > nothing more than a speculation. > > Dror K
If everyone in Tunisia had good internet access, knew how to edit a wiki, and had experience doing so that would be a no-brainer. As it is, a mechanism like that disenfranchises 99.999% of the population. Good goal to work for though. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
