Never knew that I would meet one key person in Obama's team, Ms. Gina Cooper one day in my hometown Taipei from a tweet's help.
It’s so amazing! ( But that’s the way Twitter is. It gets me to know more and more fantastic people in these 6 months. Never stops.)
Gina Cooper was a high school teacher for 13 years. After 911, she discussed political issues with kids openly at class and then started to blog.
Gina had done a lot to narrow the divine between online activists and their elected leaders.
Recently, she was asked to serve on then candidate Barack Obama’s policy advisory committee for Technology, Media, and Telecommunications. She served on the E-Government-E-Democracy subcommittee.
Above information is partly quoted from her website. If you want to read the full story in detail, please go to here
Anyway, Gina reminded me the famous Japanese TV drama “CHANGE”, a story about a school teacher became prime minister of Japan. For the reason that Gina is also a teacher. And she taught politicians to listen and respond people the way they truly need.
(Here is the English Wiki site of TV Drama “CHANGE”, Gina. Hopefully you will understand what I referred to this time)
On Government 2.0 Conference in Taipei, I couldn’t agree with Gina more about her view on digital divine and economic divine in U.S. and Taiwan.
Digital divine is: If you have patience and take time, you could teach a 103-year-old grandma to surf on internet. The only “divine” would be her bad eyesight.
Economic divine is: If someone works 10 hours a day and still fears of being layoff tomorrow. You can’t expect him to sit down, relax and post his political opinion on the website.
It is easy to tell which is the REAL problem.
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| Gina(Left)and I at the conference |
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing. I think eco divine is the main reason why so many people quite blogging after they graduate. :)
By the way, I was about to go there. But my dad needed my help on Sat morning. I guess that's another divine for me.
You are so right! And I guess that's the main reason I met lots of postgraduate students on Twitter:P
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