Why blog?

I'm doing the final work of Official Master in the Knowlegde and Information Society on the possibilities of information technology and communication which I prefer to qualify "expression of individual preferences" rather than, laconically, "politics."

I am convinced that the means to break the traditional space-time barriers in human communication that we can put the Internet, mobile telephony and the emerging digital terrestrial television may be used in collective decision-making processes, as are in the world of work, economic and, in the broadest sense, cultural.

My work aims to show these possibilities, without forgetting, however, that its implementation required a determination is active, beyond words, those that regulate the processes of collective decision, the political representatives we have chosen in some way.

In this context, the Barcelona City Council has begun the process described on the website to which I referred in the show: "i.de.a. Diagonal”.

It is, in my opinion, the most ambitious undertaken by a Spanish government for the use of ICT in a decision process: ambitious in a double sense, the population involved (in principle all citizens registered in Barcelona) and their "effectiveness" as it is not any pilot or trial, but an actual process of choice.

But personally I have left (there are some in the light of comments in the press) that some issues beyond the specific object of the consultation is worth commenting on.

Today, more than two months since the launch of the official website of the participatory process is lacking a fluid input from citizens. It is true that only has completed the first phase of the process, the "i", and general information on the process itself and the reform of the Diagonal Avenue, and then created a period of receiving input from citizens but there are thoughts which, as I will (and hopefully, I would like to go) husking, could pre-process and that will be demonstrating along the same.

But first, some considerations are needed "technological" prior.