The connected republic

Dream

Utopia does not exist:( We may dream about it. We MAY (Not will) see it in the 1st world. So lets dream on about it in the 3rd world.
 
When in the UK, somebody sends a SMS to complain about a light bulb is he being charged for that SMS? Here in South Africa we are being charged for the SMS that we send for crime, R1.50 IIRC :( I feel the article should include that little viable information too. If we report everything we as citizens will go bankrupt in no time.
 
Yeah these cell phone companies should cover these costs as it is the right thing to do, like paying your TV license.

Can you imagine if these types of services were free? It could have a huge impact on fighting crime.

All I can imagine at the moment is someone wanting to inform the police but have to first go to the shop to buy airtime, recharge their phone then send the sms. It is so backward....
 
I wanted to do this years ago with something along the lines of openconstitution or something like that. A government web based system setup in the most transparent practical way possible.

Kinda like what Obama has started with change.gov.
 
You can have all the connectivity you like, but if you have a government or council in power that never respond, then what's the point? It would just be for show, a PR job, just like the DA in Cape Town.
 
In the same way that the highly interactive Web 2.0 model is replacing broadcast media as the paradigm of choice, a new generation of technologically savvy citizens is refusing to be passive, isolated consumers of media. Instead, they are active participants.
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Right because when I want to read serious, reliable information I will read peoples' blogs
or view teenagers' YouTube videos.
To be a decent journalist you still need university training, some sort of training in the speciality you're reporting on and you need resources - informants, cameras, mics, news van, security and connections before you can report on things and even start to analise them.

Web 2.0 has been around since the days of the BBS systems of the 1980s and the usenet. Nothing new, just more websites make user generated content easier to post but to be gathered or created it still can't be garbage - and at the moment most Web 2.0 contents is rehashed traditional content or localised opinion piece rubbish. Very rarely will you find a specialist in his field posting a blog with information which is not copyrighted to his sponsor or employer.
 
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