Shortly after being subjected to questions from journalists about their 100 days of
Lehendakari, Patxi Lopez had an appointment
today and most difficult novel to the face to the citizens and respond to questions when sent over the Internet via Twitter. ETA from their musical tastes, from the content of your breakfast or your hobby to new technologies, nothing escaped public scrutiny. The only limit, 140 characters per comment.
The shift of citizens began less than an hour after the end of the hearing before the press to take stock. Internet users were able to raise the Basque leader doubts and concerns directly without intermediaries. As he noted, the intention is that the average citizen, at least during the time that the interview lasted, have "equal opportunity" that a journalist to ask questions.
Sitting in front of a screen where it was reading real-time messages sent through the Internet social networking with Twitter and a Mac laptop in front, the
Lehendakari gave their responses to issues raised through a video you could see live by 'streaming' from the website of the Basque Government. Through some of the tools of participation have led to the so-called Web 2.0 and social Internet.
Among the hundreds of questions, Lopez made a selection as varied as possible "without" any kind of censorship ", where the most shy away from controversial or uncomfortable. However, proving that people's concerns are not always the same as those of the media, the entries dealt with diverse topics such as the presence of red roses in the gardens of the palace of Ajuria Enea.
Neither the lack of a more questions, like what breakfast (coffee with pintxo tortilla), which preserves the toys for children (their collections chromes) or perfume (only uses a deodorant and some aftershave, but it has a bottle 212 Carolina Herrera not used).
"VICE unspeakable"
Declared as a music lover, music, a recurring theme in his personal blog, had several references throughout the ciberentrevista. Does not intend to miss the tour of Leonard Cohen, he said, and has an "unspeakable vice". "Many people do not understand that like modern groups as Chuck Berry is my passion."
Continuing with his personal side, people were interested in their readings or classes of Basque. The last book he read was "The ear of Murdock, Castle Freeman Jr., and now rests on her bedside table" village of widows "of the Colombian James Canyon. The summer has also helped to account for the success of time, Millennium, in Stiege Larsson. As for the learning of Euskara, the Lehendakari hopes to hold a digital future interview in that language.
In an interview through an Internet social network could not miss the references to new technologies, a topic that many of the codend comments. Thus, many were interested in how to promote free software as promised in the election campaign, or even why the hearing was retrasmitía with a landlord and not an open.
In this sense, Lopez announced that it will soon establish an office to promote the
information society and knowledge about new technologies, with a budget of one million euros. In addition, showed its commitment to promote 'open data', a movement that calls for certain information or data are freely accessible to the public, without restrictions of patents, copyrights or other mechanisms.
Also in September Lehendakaritza plans to launch a new website in keeping with the philosophy of "open government" (Open Government), which advocates that all the activity ADMINISTRATION should be open to participation at all levels for scrutiny public. Shortly be appointed Lehendakari, and Patxi Lopez drove a page where citizens could propose ideas and initiatives to assess, but was quickly closed because it was not done by public tender.