Strand 2: Politics and Government

In our future Tuesday lessons we will be linking Paper 2 articles with the different Strand 3 Application to specified scenarios.

Political Process: Online Voting, Online lobbying, Online Campaign, Online advertising
Part A
(Prepare a short presentation) 20 mins
a) Provide specific examples on how each of the following topics is applied in;

• Networks and Online voting: Joshua and Jhanvi .
• Databases and Online Voting: Ann, Husnah and Khaleel. 
• Multimedia/digital media and Online Campaign: Aliasger and Barbara.
• Internet and Online Lobbying: Sharleen and Paul.
• Software and Online Advertising : Dinar and Ashiqa. 

b) List any new concepts, technologies, terms, digital devices associated with the assigned areas (To be done by all the pairs)

c) Read the article assigned below and share how the different Paper 2 criteria can be captured;

• Joshua: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/why-hi-tech-voting-has-low-priority-for-canadian-elections-1.3218476
• Jhanvi: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/electronic-voting-machines-2012_n_1992992.html
• Ann: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/10/27/codifying-government-surveillance-senate-passes-cisa
• Husnah : http://www.cnet.com/news/e-voting-predicament-not-so-secret-ballots/
• Khaleel: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27783329
• Sharleen: http://www.livescience.com/24521-online-voting-risks.html
• Dinar:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/cant-vote-online-security-concerns-5592441
• Paul:http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/news/crowdfunding-fraud-raises-concerns-over-online-cam/nnN8s/
• Barbara http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/indian-american-biology-student-faces-prison-for-online-fraud-1201429
• Aliasger http://profit.ndtv.com/news/industries/article-new-software-may-thwart-online-banking-frauds-381640
• Ashiqa http://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/a-credit-card-with-keyboard-to-prevent-online-fraud-424230

Government Websites
Government use website for different purposes. Some of the functions include

• Tourism advert, environment warning, providing service like licence application, paying taxes online, applying for tenders and good example in Kenya is the eCitizen website in Kenya.
• Discuss with you partner, what services are provided in the eCitizen website in Kenya?https://www.ecitizen.go.ke/

Individual Task

Get any current new article that raises social and ethical significance. Prepare to share the details of the  issues raised in the article (15 minutes)

Ensure your article can address all the criteria in a paper 2 type of question. Criterion A, B, C, and D.

Example: http://news.sky.com/story/1581425/web-surveillance-what-you-need-to-know