[Seattle-editorial] Fwd: [IMC-Global] BBC OFFERS POWER TO THE PEOPLE

[Sheri Herndon]

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BBC OFFERS POWER TO THE PEOPLE

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has launched iCan, an 
activism
website that incorporates social networking, content publishing and
campaign-organization tools to encourage civic involvement. The BBC 
said its
main goal for the site is to fight voter apathy, though at 75 percent 
voter
turnout, the UK far surpasses US election turnouts. So far, not much is
happening on the site, which is focused on local politics, with starter
issues such as maternity rights, street cleaning and bicycle lanes. But 
some
Brits categorize those concerns under "minutiae." Within a week of 
iCan's
launch, links to a spoof page called iCan't began popping up in blogs.
Richard Kirkcaldy, creator of the iCan't page, doubts the BBC's 
ability, as
a government-owned entity, to objectively manage the site's issues. Some
citizens wonder what will happen when national campaigns get started 
and how
the BBC will handle potentially divisive campaigns, such as those 
against
the war in Iraq.

SOURCE: Wired AUTHOR: Kari L. Dean
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,60994,00.html
iCan website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/


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