Week 8
This week´s tasks:
What oppertunities can you find for political participation via the internet. How many of the following can you achieve while aticking to your political beliefs.
Sign an e-petition
I signed in at Queensland Residents draws to the attention of the House that for the last two years koalas have been disappearing from the Redlands Koala Coast area at the rate of 1000 per year. There are about 2400 koalas left in the Koala Coast now, but at the current rate of decline they will be completely gone by
2012. Council, the community and the state government need to work together to stop this from happening.
• Stop the removal of their trees;
• Stop koalas
being killed on roads and railway lines;
• Stop dog attacks;
• Stop urbanisation from destroying their habitat; and
- Start using legislation and money to make it happen.
Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
I responded to this article:
Survey: For big news, consumers bypass blogs
For many Americans seeking news during important events, blogs are just about the last place they look, relying instead on traditional outlets.
What is Barak Obama up to today?
President Obama at the U.N. General Assembly: "Join us in building the future that our people deserve"
23/09 - 09
This morning, nine months after taking office, President Obama made his first address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He spoke to the world leaders gathered there about their skepticism regarding America's engagement with the international community, and reflected on how he has worked to change that in his first months as President of the United States.
The President then called on the nations of the world to engage in a new cooperative effort to secure international peace and prosperity. And he outlined four pillars that he believes essential to securing that prosperous future: non-proliferation and disarmament; the promotion of peace and security; the preservation of our planet; and a global economy that advances opportunity for all people.
Finally, he called on those assembled in the chamber to recommit to The United Nations as an institution, and to work together to build a strong future for all world peoples.
Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
The representatives are:
Local - Councillor Susie Douglas -
Division 7, Surfers Paradise
State - Raymond Alexander Stevens MP -
Member for Mermaid Beach
Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
Susie Douglas have never spoke in Parliament, just her housband Dr Alex Douglas.
Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.
Hacking for global democracy?
Hackers have actually interest me lately. I have seen some movies and TV shows about hackers, and I have to say that they fascinate me! How do they do it???!! How can they hack in my computer and see all my information in just a few minutes.
Stephen Stockwell (Griffith University
He suggests rather that there is a new ‘hacker ethos’, one which applies to those who are ‘repurposing the media machine to open and extend debate beyond traditional national and social borders’
So how can you become a citizen hacker, or have you already become one without knowing it? And just by clicking on the latest YouTube clip and forwarding it to your friends, have you in fact already become a citizen hacker ….
What do you think of the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")???
The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.
The experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography.
Internet providers and the government's own tests have found that presently available filters are not capable of adequately distinguishing between legal and illegal content.
Internet users would not be able to block all "illegal material". People will always be able to take away filters to obtain "uncensored access to the internet".
You can protect your children and download software filters on your PC, which are already provided by the government for free at netalert.gov.au, are more than adequate.
I think we have to stop this, because it will degrade the internet speeds who is slow already
What place does censorship have in a democracy?
Political censorship occurs when governments hold back information from their citizens. The logic is to exert control over the populace and prevent free expression that might foment rebellio.
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