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Parminder and all,
<p> This is interesting and perhaps very helpful as well. What
worries
<br>me are these free government Email addresses monitor free, ergo
<br>respectful of the potential users privacy?
<p>Parminder wrote:
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am posting below an exchange on the Bill of Rights elist, which may be
of interest.)</font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>
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germany the Ministry of the Interior has announced a plan to give each
citizen an 'governmentally certified' email address which allows more extensive
practices with official governmental institutions. Potentially this could
be a huge step forward in enabling/facilitating online citizen participation.</font></font>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>Unfortunately i couldn't
find information in english, but here is a german article covering the
initiative</font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0><a href="http://www.thexblog.de/?p=4916" title="blocked::http://www.thexblog.de/?p=4916">http://www.thexblog.de/?p=4916</a></font></font>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>I will send more info as
i find it</font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>best</font></font>
<br><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>Max</font></font>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size=+0>_______________</font></font><o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:
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is an interesting piece of information. Presumably, if one has a certified
email ID as a citizenship enabler, some kind of basic connectivity also
looks very much round the corner as a necessary citizen entitlement. Feeds
very well into a rights based approach to the Internet, in terms of the
positive rights aspect, of what got discussed earlier here as a ‘right
to the Internet’. </font></font></font><o:p></o:p></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-size:
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