Face2Face is way to open govt

[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Govt can use social media as a potential goldmine for to-and-fro exchange of citizen views on public and policy matters

For Brazil Voters, Machines Rule

A battery gives the urnas, as these portable electronic voting machines are called, a backup in case of power failures. Voters punch in several digits to vote — and are no longer obliged to write out a candidate’s name, a baffling chore for borderline literates.