Twitter republic brings what the Egyptians don’t have
July 19, 2010
Few days ago the Egyptian tweeps have conducted the first elections for the twitter presidency, hundreds of Egyptians who dream about freedom and a democratic state for better Egypt have decided to fill their practice gap, take their dreams to the cyber space and enrich their democratic awareness, perhaps they live to see an end to the dictatorship in Egypt.
A public debate between the two presidential candidates – @abo3atef and @maboulazm – has taken place before the elections to introduce their programs and demonstrate their personal talent to the voters. Yesterday the organizers have announced @abo3atef as the first twitter president; the organizers have considered this round as an experimental trial to learn the proper channels and processes of conducting a well organized cyber election in the second round which is planned to be on the 1st of August. The adoption for technology and new ideas to eliminating voting problems and establishing a system of transparency brings to the surface the current immobility of the Egyptian national election process and Mubarak’s insistence in using methods that have been ceased decades ago to ease the election rigging, and the monopoly on power and wealth.
it’s worth mentioning that Ayman Nour – @ayman_nour – the 2005 Egypt presidential elections’ candidate has participated in this cyber election and congratulated @abo3atef through a tweet from his own twitter account.
