Hi Dinesh,
Saw your blog entry on electoral reforms. Is there any FOSS software which
will help the voting process? I think we really need such enabling tools/
category of FOSS softwares. Once it becomes easy and convenient to vote, and
it is ingrained as a habit from childhood, maybe some of your concerns will
be addressed and India will become a REAL democracy rather than a SHAM one
it is at present.
The software would fulfill a need in myriad applications e.g. in
1 Housing societies AGMs
2 Company/stockholders Annual General Meetings
3 in panchayats
4 in classrooms
5 in companies, schools, adventure groups, theater audiences, neighbourhood
meetings, in ngos etc etc --i.e. wherever collective decision making is
required.
I tried searching on
http://directory.fsf.org and other places but have yet
to find such a software. Maybe somebody will make it someday
Almost all Swiss citizens participate in voting on important issues thru the
sms/mobile route and they vote atleast once a month since it is so
convenient. This is what I learned from a person who came to tell us about
RTI from the CHRI --
www.humanrightsinitiative.org.
Kussh
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