[governance] germany plans citizen email

[Parminder]

(I am posting below an exchange on the Bill of Rights elist, which may be of
interest.)

 

In 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.

Unfortunately i couldn't find information in english, but here is a german
article covering the initiative
http://www.thexblog.de/?p=4916

I will send more info as i find it 
best
Max 

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Max

 

That 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'. 

 

Best

 

Parminder 

 

 





 

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