Politics and Electronic Media have always had a marriage of convenience when it comes to Political canvassing. Be it Radio in 1930 by Franklin.D Roosevelt, TV IN 1961 by John. F Kennedy or World Wide Web by Barack Obama in 2008 they have demonstrated the power of that marriage. For us to copy this model of marriage took some time. For Radio it took almost 50 years and for TV it took close to 30 years. Do we have to wait at least 10 years if not more to embrace internet for political canvassing.
If one can buy, bank, mail and marry via internet then why not engage with politics on-line? Is this the time to change the political culture?
Challenge:
Business of politics is the business of people and building relationships. The challenge lies in developing one-on-one relationship with all of your voters which is a great challenge. Then engaging young voters in the political process to get the benefit of youth vote is a fact which cannot be discounted.
Time to change:
Politics is all about communication. It’s about reaching out to people, engaging people and all these are not same as it was a decade ago. Every effective movement changes with time and this is the time for new and creative forms of political engagement.
Curiosity:
Forthcoming elections will give us an opportunity to observe who is going to benefit from the internet. We shall see the affect of internet on election results.
Mobile democracy:
This website is a platform to extend a political handshake across the state/country/world and across time zones. It increases your ability to pitch for votes any time of the day. For this to happen one needs to have right kind of tools.
Right tools:
Right tools for right job will give right results
use this web site as fund raising tool
use this website as communication tool
use this website as a tool to reach out to organize supporters for door-to-door canvassing and other group meetings.
More tools:
use this website as a tool for mobilizing volunteers during elections
use this website as a tool to reach out to masses more conveniently at small costs.
use this website as a tool to broadcast your speeches on video.
Our mission:
To expand participation and build stronger democracies and communities through the power of information and communication technologies and strategies.
Now what after elections?
Engagement: Strengthen, expand, and diversify engagement through effective and meaningful online discussions and information exchange on public issues.
Start a local issues forum and involve actively. use this as an interface between you and your voters for sharing news and views on important issues.
Respond to voters queries thus bringing in the true democratic spirit.
