[Foundation-l] Wiki-revolution

[Fred Bauder]

> Hello,
>
> I found this link *http://destour.org *on the Wikipedia-ar mailing list,
> and thought it might interest people who don't speak Arabic as well.
> This is a Wiki inviting Tunisian citizens to write the country's new
> constitution the Wiki way. The site is entirely in Arabic and it
> includes a constitution draft, which the Tunisian public is supposed to
> change and amend collaboratively. According to their "about", this is an
> initiative of the Tunisian Internet Association (/Jam'iyat Tunis
> lil-Internet/), which is a non-official non-profit Tunisian
> organization. According to them, the project is run by volunteers.
>
> To be honest, I don't give much chance to this initiative, but it is an
> interesting development nonetheless. As far as I remember, Florence told
> me about similar initiative in France by the French government, but it
> seems to be the first of its kind in the Arab world. Perhaps the close
> cultural ties between Tunisia and France played a role here, but this is
> nothing more than a speculation.
>
> Dror K

If everyone in Tunisia had good internet access, knew how to edit a wiki,
and had experience doing so that would be a no-brainer. As it is, a
mechanism like that disenfranchises 99.999% of the population. Good goal
to work for though.

Fred