Will 2010 be the Election when campaign and political strategy leverages the network?
Logic would dictate that given limited infrastructure and technology, the answer would be no.
But couldn’t we use the tools we already got?
What if a politico could leverage existing infrastructure? Meaning SMS. What if, as a first step, campaigns took a page from Social Networking and Web 2.0, copy the twitter phenomena and influence the conversation not just on Friendster but via SMS? What if political campaigns begin and build communities? Would it be creative destruction?
As you ponder those questions, razorfish’s Digital Outlook 2009 is an interesting read:
“The last decade has been a time of radical change and reinvention for the media ecosystem. 2008 was no different.
Perhaps the most shocking change in the media and advertising industries was the pace at which digital and Web-based tech-
nologies began to penetrate the mainstream and displace traditional forms of advertising.”
Ain’t no reason things would be the same, right?
Are politicians interested in conversing with the masses?
Popularity: 1% [?]
Politicians are foolish to give out their cellphone numbers, even email addresses under the guise that these are the contact numbers or ways to access them for their immediate response.
The truth is, they do not function at all. Text or call them, you don’t get any reply or response from that mayor, governor, or senator, as the case may be. Further, if you even as much as email them, you will have to wait for the moon to fall before you get any feedback.
Given these, perhaps, politicians are not going to make use of digital access to converse with the masses. This means, they cannot have their eyes or ears to the people who need them.
But still, I would suspect someone who wants to be president, must somehow try to see if through the digital corridors, some people can build communities or communication webs for him – as a means of universal access.
If that is possible, who knows, even a simple FV blogger can become a senator?
It is the best Electoral Technology that is
available at present.
The old system was easily tampered and was
subjected to electoral frauds. So, it is like
giving available medicine to a patient. Hoping
he will get well.
All systems are subject to human manipulation. Like all machines. You need human operators. If those human operators do their work. It will be okay.
If they will be subject to human temptations,
coercions and intimidations to do what is not
right. It will not be okay.
So, let us cross our fingers and hope for the
best. Be vigilant to any unusual incidents and
activities.
karlpopper, there is a way to make them reply to your text or email…
just put the subject “money money money” at mabilis pa sa alas kwatro ang reply ng mga lintek na yan bwahahahaha
LOL is laugh out load in the internet…
Bloggers are opinion setters. No ambition to become
the subjects of Bloggers like those politicians…
Alright, so no one here approves of ‘political cloning’?
I remember that sticker, “Don’t mess up with Texas” and perhaps, we can also say, “Don’t mess up with FV”.
Just a light note.