Democracy 2.0 (Next Level of Democracy)
We all agree that democracy is good.
Ruling the country according to the vision of te population happens in democracy.
However, since we can not take the opinion of citizens for each and every decision, we appoint representatives of the population to take decisions on behalf of us. (Parlimentarinas)
However, the technology has been booming during recent past.
Technologies like mobile phone and internet has been made more freely available for citizens at a larger scale.
In Sri Lanka, it is said that the mobile phone penetration is 130%.
i.e. If the population is 100, we have 130 mobile phones/ connections.
The point is, we could make use of the available technology, in upgrading to the next level of democracy.
If we could register mobile phones for individual NID numbers, then we could get the opinion of population more frequently. (Registration of mobile numbers against individual NIDs is expected to prevent getting more than one vote from one individual). The mobile user gets a SMS mentioning your concern. The user has to reply just Y or N.
This process could be made transparent by permitting individual user to check his/ her previous response in the database.
It is felt, this is worth atleast pilotting.
We could still adhere to the conventional voting method for major decisions.
However, for not so major decisions, we could get an insight population opinion.
We all agree that democracy is good.
Ruling the country according to the vision of te population happens in democracy.
However, since we can not take the opinion of citizens for each and every decision, we appoint representatives of the population to take decisions on behalf of us. (Parlimentarinas)
However, the technology has been booming during recent past.
Technologies like mobile phone and internet has been made more freely available for citizens at a larger scale.
In Sri Lanka, it is said that the mobile phone penetration is 130%.
i.e. If the population is 100, we have 130 mobile phones/ connections.
The point is, we could make use of the available technology, in upgrading to the next level of democracy.
If we could register mobile phones for individual NID numbers, then we could get the opinion of population more frequently. (Registration of mobile numbers against individual NIDs is expected to prevent getting more than one vote from one individual). The mobile user gets a SMS mentioning your concern. The user has to reply just Y or N.
This process could be made transparent by permitting individual user to check his/ her previous response in the database.
It is felt, this is worth atleast pilotting.
We could still adhere to the conventional voting method for major decisions.
However, for not so major decisions, we could get an insight population opinion.
