This is why online e-Democracy is so important, as this activity represents the power of this technology and how it can be used to embrace democracy and to involve people in the social, economic, cultural and political issues of the day. This is a tool that can give the individual citizen the power to influence public policy. Governments are slowly coming to realize that there is an undercurrent of democratic change going on in the world. The face of democracy is beginning to change and a few thousand at the moment are doing it. But this is a change that has the potential for growth.
Technology is a cold and neutral medium.
It is the people, the individuals, that bring passion, life and meaning to this medium. It somehow seems that this point is missed, as society collectively races to embrace technology. We are the inheritors of our past that we did not bring about, but the creators of our collective futures. At this point in our history we have a collective responsibility as to how our society will shape itself. We have the capacity to create change in our societies through speaking out.