To follow up on my previous post, and also the piece I wrote on Global Voices about the role of the internet in the Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago elections, here’s an excerpt from a comment left by Liz Henry on a Global Voices post about the build-up to the general election in Guatemala (which takes place today):
People sometimes bring up the digital divide, or low literacy rates, as a reason not to care about putting political information online. But we’ve got to support good, clear, thorough information about elections and candidates — and history and law — online. Then it can spread, through whoever does have the means to read it, print it, distribute it, and do what it takes to get the information out into the world.
Georgia we all adore you so can we have a podcast soon? It has been over 2 months now.And we are all suffering withdrawal.
Vernon – as you now have a blog maybe it’s time you stopped depending on a clearly unreliable character like me and started the Vern’s World podcast. How about it?