Online governing has already changed the world as we know it with filing income taxes, paying traffic ticket fines, and WhiteHouse.gov. I'm one hundred percent behind more online government as I view it as more convenient, potentially more efficient, and most importantly incredibly interactive. The only issue I can see would be privacy, and more measures need to be taken in order to make government data bases with our social security numbers, for example, or other important information more secure.
The 2010 presidential campaign is the biggest reason I'm all for the government embracing the Internet. To see people ask questions on YouTube and have the presidential candidates answer them was a huge step in the right direction in my opinion. It gave ordinary people a voice that would probably be ignored and we heard some great questions that many news outlets would never ask. I also felt since it was so much easier and convenient to get involved, more people joined the debate on election day to choose our current president.
Although I see the potential privacy issues, hacker threats, inefficient programs, and so on and so forth. I recognize the possibilities and look forward to how much the Internet will change governing in the years to come.
Source: WhiteHouse.gov
Good point, I like that you mentioned that the internet gives ordinary people a voice. I just hope that the security settings of government operated websites are safe enough for the amount of personal information that is stored there. Remember that hacker-technology also advances as rapidly if not more than the good using of the WWW.
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