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Why empowr (part 8)
Hello everyone,
Together, we've been reading theWhy empowrbook, written by one of the empowr
founders. If you're interested in why empowr was created, or want to know where
it's headed, this is a good way to find out.
Just joining the conversation? You can read the earlier parts here:Part 1: [
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As always,many thanks for your thoughtful commentsthat you left in the earlier
parts; we're all reading your comments very carefully (and deleting spam and
unrelated comments).Thank you! Around the world, democracy is in greater
danger than any time in recent history
The news from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1990's, the fall of
the Berlin Wall, those were a time when the march of democracy and freedom in
the world seemed inevitable. Every time you opened up a newspaper, you expected
to see another country opening its arms to freedom.
And today? The trend is leaning in the opposite direction. Recently the
watchdog group Freedom House released its annual report on freedom and
democracy around the world. It analyzed nearly 200 countries, based on the
United Nation's declaration of human rights. They concluded that democracy is
in greater danger than anytime in the last 25 years, with 36% of the world's
population not being free, 24% partly free, and 40% free.
According to their report, democracy has been declining for the last decade. In
2014, 61 countries saw their freedom decline and 33 saw their freedom improve,
the worse showing in over ten years.
If you look at the 21st century overall, freedom has peaked, according to
Freedom House. The least free area of the world is Africa and the Middle East,
where 85% of the population is not free. The exception is Tunisiawhich just a
decade ago, had one of the most tyrannical governments in the world.
Dictatorship is on the rise, and its nature is changingthey're no longer even
pretending to be democratic. Russia's invasion of Crimea is the most noticeable
example. China is arresting activists more than ever and now even televising
their confessions.
In Egypt the military has taken over and the courts sentenced hundreds of
political prisoners to be executed in fake trials.
There are a good number of dictatorships such as Ethiopia, Azerbaijan and
Vietnam, which have managed to avoid the Western media's attention but are just
as oppressive.
It's not all bad news, with the Ukrainians revolting against their government
despite Russian effortsand we've also seen some very interesting resistance to
oppression in Hong Kong.
The bottom line is that at the end of the cold war, it appeared for a moment
that freedom was an unstoppable force, but every force has an undercurrent and
perhaps that's what we're seeing these days.
***
At empowr, we are huge believers in the power of democracy. Even though it has
some serious challenges, it absolutely can be fixed. In the fifteen years that
we've been working on empowr, hardly a few days passed where we weren't
thinking about and discussing the news, the issues as we saw them and what we
could do, as concerned citizens and technologists, to make a difference. More
importantly, we have spent all of those years designing, coding, and
integrating dozens of interconnected technologies with the objective of making
a difference in the direction and future of democracy. If we don't try to help
in the only way we can, then we, too, can't do a damned thing other than
complain.
One critical way we can make peaceful revolutions possible again is by helping
voters understand that their democracy is dying and that its only hope for
survival is to impose limits on how many terms any politician may serve, as
well as on how much money any single person or entity can give them or spend
directly or indirectly on their election campaigns.
The most successful way this has been done in the past is by enabling every
citizen to have affordable access to a world-class educationan absolutely
essential part of ensuring that democracy endures.In the next part, we'll get
right into that...
(more)
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