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Iceland Uses Facebook to Forge Constitution
Facebook is being used by Icelanders to help form a new constitution.
Two thirds of the country uses the social network, but sites like Twitter and YouTube are also being utilised by the government to communicate with citizens.
From ZDNet:
Two thirds of Iceland’s population (approximately 320,000) is on Facebook, so the constitutional council’s weekly meetings are broadcast live not only on the council’s website, but on the social network as well. “It is possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion takes place via Facebook,” Berghildur Bernhardsdottir, spokeswoman for the constitutional review project, told the Associated Press. “The sort of argumentative and negative discussion that has been common on Icelandic blogs and news sites, especially since the economic collapse, has been almost entirely absent.”
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