We have all heard about town hall meetings. Your local city or town holds a meeting where citizens can ask questions and voice opinions. Usually there is some debating going on, and at least one person loses their cool. They can be at times fun to watch, and a great learning experience for our children. A brief look into government and how it works… So how does this all apply to the white house and the President? Good question!
The White House will be hosting a town hall meeting on Thursday. No matter what your affiliation is, everyone has taken notice on how much more technology savvy the President is. This brings new life and new understanding to the White House, and now a new way for each and every American to be heard.
How do you take millions of people, millions of voices and have them all be heard? You use Google Moderator! Leave it up to Google to find a way to incorporate everyone’s opinion in one place. The White House using Google Moderator will allow every American a chance to be heard one way, or another. By going to an online link (http://WhiteHouse.gov/OpenForQuestions) people can post questions they would like the President to answer at the town hall meeting. Now we all understand this could create millions of questions, so where do you go from there? Well, you can also vote for questions you would like to be answered! The top questions with the most votes will be answered. This allows them to answer questions that the majority of people would like answers to, and not what they choose to answer. Google states, “We think technology can be a force for greater accountability and access between citizens and their elected officials. We’re excited that the White House has chosen to use the power of cloud-based applications like Google Moderator and App Engine to scale the president’s direct dialogue with the American people.”
Technology is constantly changing, and grows at an astounding pace. So what happens next? Someone designs a car that can fly like in the old time Jetsons Cartoon? Oh, Wait, didn’t I just hear that a student at MIT has applied for a patent to do just that, and hopes to begin production in 2009? Didn’t they just have their first test flight? Wow… just wow.
`Kimberly Veautour
Central Mass Web Design, Inc.
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