In Modern Standard Arabic, the word "destour" or "dustur" denotes "constitution". I don't think there is double meaning intended here. Tunisia is one of the more modernized countries in the Arab world and people there have relatively good connection to the Internet. I don't know the exact numbers. And yet I agree that this is somewhat a naive initiative if only because it assumes developed Internet culture in a society where many people are not too acquainted with the Web.
Dror K בתאריך 02/04/11 18:58, ציטוט Fred Bauder: >> 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 > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l