Obama Web-Based Democracy Galang

Washington - President selected the United States, Barack Obama begin steps to build democracy 2.0, democracy, which involves interactive participation of the public via the Internet. Kenyan President bloody known through this technology, open public forum at the site to ask for advice on people about government policy.

Obama official site in the transition period until he was appointed as the U.S. president on 20 January 2009, namely, change.gov, invite the area to give views on various topics. As a starter, is the topic of discussion concerning the problems in the system of health care services in the U.S..

The way the online discussion is possible in the new features on the site is called 'Join the Discussion'. To start the debate, displayed a video of two team members from Obama Health Policy Transition Team, who discussed the matter on priority health problems Obama.

Area are asked to do the online discussion is not as polite as other government sites, the comments at the site Obama is not filtered. And 24 hours after launch, more than 2000 comments have been to encourage the forum.

Obama steps implementing democracy via the internet, it praised the various parties. According to Micrah Sifry, the founder of political blog TechPresident, this step is a great beginning to make the United States government more open.

The president Barack Obama themselves in a chance interview asserts that it wants to ensure its position as the president does not make them isolated from the people.

"One of the worst things that happened in the presidential loss is sensitivity to what the people of the day-to-day," said Obama, and the AFP quoted This detikINET, Thursday (27/11/2008).