how tech savvy is Uganda’s government?
I’ve been reading a couple of things over at O’Reilly’s Radar and at Reddit about how the US Legislation needs revision control/version control via Subversion or any other version control tool.
To put that in English, for the uninitiated, it’s basically a way for Senators, lawmakers and legislators and the public to be able to track and make real time changes to the US Legislation online.
Quote from Reddit:
We should have access not only to every piece of legislation, but also to every revision of that legislation, complete with appropriate tags to indicate what has changed and who is responsible for those changes.
Obama’s new government apparently proposes to take things a little further:
“To make the government more accountable, Obama said he would post all non-emergency bills online for five days before he signed them into law, allowing Americans a chance to weigh in on the legislation. In addition, he said he would post all meetings between lobbyists and government agencies online.”
I’m not sure how far they’ve pushed the idea,but apparently the UK already has something like that online.
I loathe politics, but things like this always get me thinking:
How long it would take for our Government / Parliament to be able to even consider such advances in technology, let alone lawmaking and governance?
I think developing countries like ours are at the sweet spot when it comes to technology. We let the other countries develop the tools, and through the internet, we have access to the same tools as they do.
But are we using that to our advantage? India is. Their technology sector is growing in leaps and bounds. Is ours?
What’s your take?
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Offtopic:
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Ayn RandNever forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
-Martin Luther King, Jr
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oh what the hell, i am taking seconds too!
antipop’s last blog post..World Aids Day; Breaking my silence
man when will i ever get firsties or even seconds, anyway me i think sevo cant even use his blackberry.
The Emrys’s last blog post..lunch
What was legal about everything that Hitler did?
The Rising Page’s last blog post..Def Tuesday Blues
@Antipop, why you genius you!
@Emrys, dude has a blackberry?
@Page, not too sure. When one makes the laws, everything is legal.
@Miss Fyne, howdy, ma’am.
You know, about two years ago watching discovery channel, i saw some amazing road work techniques that even included floating roads in Norway. I got to thinking, damn, this info is so readily available but why aren’t we using it to our advantage. Why can’t we solve our problem of potholes when others have done so ages ago?
I tell you, whoever it was that said Africans are ruled by the unholy trinity of Ignorance, selfishness and greed was right. I mean how else can you explain our ineptitude in applying lifetimes of technological solutions to improve our country? Maybe our government doesn’t actually have access to the internet…maybe…Sigh
The Apprentice’s last blog post..It’s monday.Don’t you wish you were a street-sweeper?
we need to begin with how many people actually have access to a computer…
Sybella’s last blog post..Look Beneath the Surface
if i am anything to go by, i will say not so tech savvy. you see, the only thing i know how to do with a computer is type on microsoft word, read e-mail on yahoo and open blogs! now imagine what those old greying men in parliament could do with a computer? probably talk to it?
antipop’s last blog post..World Aids Day; Breaking my silence