@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 Sender: •••@••.••• (Marilyn Davis) Subject: CR CRISIS/24 Hours of Democracy Thank you, Richard, for this: > The original purpose of cyber-rights was to be a Campaign -- to build a > constituency both on and off the net that understands the democracy-aspect > of the cyberspace future, and could then support a demand for traditional > civil liberties and rights in that new domain. I didn't understand this before. The 24 Hours of Democracy that Henry Huang discusses supports this purpose: > (See it yourself: http://www.hotwired.com/userland/24/) > > The idea is simple. You write (or draw, or even speak) what the > Internet, and freedom in general means to you, and you post it to > the Web. This doesn't necessarily mean writing long involved It would be even more effective if we could judge the essays, each of us rating each essay 1 to 10, and elect a few winners. If we gathered a significant number of voters, the top three essays would have a good chance of getting into the newspapers and the authors on the TV. We need some positive hoopla to paint a better picture of what goes on here. Also, there needs to be someone other than politicians defining what democracy is and these new definitions need to be common knowledge. The technology could be pieced together from an eVoted Majordomo list echoed into a Web page with Hypermail. I'd be happy to provide the eVoted list if someone else has a site with Hypermail or the equivalent. This has the extra benefit that we can discuss the essays as well as judge them. Also, participation by simple email is possible. I want to note that this is not the best architecture. The vote- keeping will be centralized and therefore vulnerable to attack but it is a place to start and plans are in the works for vote-keeping at multiple sites with the statistics networked around to the various sites along with the discussion threads. Also, unless there is some non-virtual registration process, as there is in political elections, people with multiple email addresses can vote multiple times. * * * Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.-------------- * ---- eVote - online voting software | * To participate in the beta 3790 El Camino Real, #147 * * write •••@••.••• Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA * * (415) 493-3631 ------------- * * -------- •••@••.••• ------- * @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore - •••@••.••• - Wexford, Ireland CyberJournal: Cyberlib temporarily unavailable Cyber-Rights: http,ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
