GlobalVote

ISA recently received a promotional announcement for a new internet service called Global Vote, we recommend it as a resource for your research and perhaps it will be of interest to your students as well:

GlobalVote has been launched to contribute to the debate on decision-making processes within major international organizations such as the UN, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. This will be done by collecting the opinions of the international online community, and by disseminating these polling results to International Organizations, universities, the media, and national governments.

Largely unrepresentative, major international organizations have had a decisive impact on world policy over the past 60 years, but their decisions are made in an exceedingly opaque way. By utilizing innovative, transparent polling systems GlobalVote advocates for fairer representation, and collects popular opinion on the most important decisions affecting people around the globe.

Although global communication has been taking place nearly effortlessly for over a decade, the opinions of the online global community have yet to be collected in a systematic way. With developed and underdeveloped countries struggling with democracy on every level of society, and with these countries building their infrastructures more and more around the internet and wireless communication, the future of democracy could very well develop online. GlobalVote aims to be at the beginning of this exciting future.

If you want to be part of the future please go to www.theglobalvote.org and become a member, if you have friends who are interested in global issues please do refer them to the website as well. Yesterday we have closed a resolution on "Sanctions on Iran?" and the results of the vote can be seen on the website, currently a resolution on the emergency state in Pakistan has been posted, if you want to voice your opinion please "become member" and leave a comment in the connected form and vote! As the initiative is in the beginning also all comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome and can be send to info@theglobalvote.org. Your cooperation is highly appreciated!

Let's vote