Technology and the 2010 Federal Election
Recent controversy surrounding Senator Stephen Conroy's plans to implement mandatory internet filtering have made one thing abundantly clear: we are served by a bunch of politicians who have no idea about technology. With an Australian federal election coming up on August 21st I’d like to do something to change that. What I propose is this: That a list of technology questions be sent to each candidate for the election and the results published.
After doing this on my blog (http://yellek.org/blog) for the 2010 South Australian state election I have created this site to collate all of the information for the 2010 federal election. I propose to gather the information for the seat of Sturt which is the one I live in. I am looking for help to do the same for other electorates. If you think you would like to help follow the link here and volunteer.
I don’t seriously think that this effort will necessarily affect the election result greatly however I do think that technology is an issue that affects many people’s lives and we owe it to ourselves to elect as many people as we can who actually have a clue what is going on.
Here are the questions I am proposing to send to candidates, comments are welcome. In particular are there any other issues that need to be raised:
- Mac or PC?
- What web browser do you use?
- What social networking sites do you or your staff use (Facebook, Twitter, Others) and where can we find you on those sites?
- Do you have a blog and if so what is the address?
- In your opinion, what is the role of the internet in the Australian political process?
- Tell us about your party's policies that will impact the use of technology in Australia.
Tell us what you or your party's opinion is on the following policies/issues:
