Today, an SMS sent and firmed by the Council of Ministers of the
Italian Republic reminded all the Italian mobile phone users that
tomorrow is election day:
"Elezioni 2004, si vota sabato 12 dalle 15 alle 22 e domenica 13 dalle
7 alle 22. Necessari documento e tessera elettorale".
"Elections 2004, vote on Saturday 12 from 15 to 22 and on Sunday, from
7 to 22. ID and voting card are required"
The President of the Council, Silvio Berlusconi says the initiatives
aims solely at reducing absenteeism: "We know that over 4 million
Italians go away during the week-end: I address this invitation to them
so that they come back and vote."
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
Every italian (Including me) has received this message today. This is
producing a lot of discussion about privacy and costs (The Gov.it has
spent more than 4 million euros for this message).
To be more complete this is not the first time. In the past the italian
governament has sent a similar message informing of the situation about
a general black-out of the national power system, and nobody has
discussed about this and no mobile related blog (That I know) have
reported this case.
What do you think? Is this a stupid idea or is just an example of
pubblic use of mobile tech?
BR
Giovanni Bertani
Received on Fri Jun 11 23:32:18 2004