E-democracy

democracy to talk about

yep we got ramon perez back uh he's the ceo of digital democracy and he's going to give us an update on what's going on

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digital democracy it's good to see you ramon how you been doing

doing doing well doing well staying busy for sure there's plenty of democracy work to do as you can imagine yeah

tell us tell us about it yeah so so how so you know give us an update what's going on

And I will say, Mark, you asked me for at the beginning for updates.

I think the biggest update was that we, you know, I already mentioned this to you guys last time, but we've had several sitting legislators and candidates running for office who have endorsed the project, mostly out of Florida, since that's where we started.

And I guess that's a note to any, whether it's a broadcaster, our citizen journalists, anyone relaying some sort of information, that is very important to note.

Looking at Zambia, we can also learn that being connected to the internet does not necessarily mean having a healthy digital democracy.

So where should governments, particularly in the ZADAC region, draw the line between combating disinformation while also protecting freedom of expression?

I think that government have a legitimate responsibility to make sure that they address the issue of fake news and coordinated fake information.