Archive for February, 2004
Monday, February 16th, 2004
If you needed proof of the hellish bureaucracy administrating migration policy, then the headline from the Chicago Sun-Times should persuade you: Kidney donor denied visa for cousin's transplant. And for those who need more, well, here it is:U.S. Embassy officials in Manila think Monzon's relative may not have enough family ...
Posted in Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity | Comments Off on Why Visas don’t work
Sunday, February 15th, 2004
Today's ZNet email commentary was a fascinating profile of Washington D.C's Youth Court, which is sponsored by the Time Dollar Institute.Asked for evidence of the program's merit, Hamilton said: "If you sit and listen to these kids deliberate you see the tremendous learning process that goes on. You see the ...
Posted in Society and culture | Comments Off on Youth Court offers hope
Saturday, February 14th, 2004
How funny. A short number of years ago I remember (then minister) de Valera suggesting that commercial radio stations should no longer have to pay licence fees (which were based on revenues). Now the Irish Times reports that a report to the government is suggesting ways to collect revenues from ...
Posted in Media regulation | Comments Off on Funding media regulation: back to the future?
Saturday, February 14th, 2004
Voters in the state of Georgia, USA are in a similar situation to those in Ireland, though a number of years ahead of us. The minister could do worse than take account of one voter's comments thatThen I started to question the results. I kept saying, at first, that there ...
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Faith Based e-voting in Georgia
Friday, February 13th, 2004
I (Andrew) appeared on New Talk 106's The Right Hook this afternoon. They had Dave Walsh from the department first, and then me. I managed to get a number of points in - such as cost, the secrecy/scrutiny balance - but there wasn't time to skewer some of the other ...
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Right Hook interview
Friday, February 13th, 2004
Paul's appearance on Liveline on 5th February is archived here.
Andrew's interview on The Right Hook is archived here. The item begins with an interview with the Department representative - David Walsh - and then moves to Andrew.
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Audio footage
Friday, February 13th, 2004
Alternet has a brief overview of Comcast's bid to buy Disney.
Posted in Corporate media | Comments Off on Comcast building a (better?) mousetrap
Friday, February 13th, 2004
The Oxford Internet Institute has a seminar featuring Dr. Barbara Simons of the ACM on 19th March in which she talks about the (now defunct) SERVE internet voting project, her analysis of it, and the politics of e-voting research. Sounds interesting, for those who can make it.
Posted in Electronic Voting | Comments Off on Oxford seminar
Friday, February 13th, 2004
The three main opposition parties - Fine Gael, Labour, and the Green party - have agreed a motion opposing electronic voting, according to RTE and politics.ie. In related news Labour leader Pat Rabitte has claimed that electronic voting is 'yet one more proof of [the government's] contempt for democracy." He ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2004
There's an interesting story on CorpWatch about migrant workers employed by Halliburton in Baghdad. Looking at profiteering by Halliburton, and also drawing in the experiences of the workers - who get wages based on where they come from - the article gives an interesting insight to the many complex issues ...
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on CorpWatch on Halliburton workers in Iraq