[Foundation-l] Wiki-revolution

[Dror Kamir]

In Modern Standard Arabic, the word "destour" or "dustur" denotes 
"constitution". I don't think there is double meaning intended here.
Tunisia is one of the more modernized countries in the Arab world and 
people there have relatively good connection to the Internet. I don't 
know the exact numbers. And yet I agree that this is somewhat a naive 
initiative if only because it assumes developed Internet culture in a 
society where many people are not too acquainted with the Web.

Dror K

בתאריך 02/04/11 18:58, ציטוט 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
>
>
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