This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Elections 2011/2012.
On June 24, a new president has been officially declared in Egypt and his name is Mohammed Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi has become Egypt's first freely elected president, and like all other candidates, he has his own presidential program and promises that voters – supposedly – elected him based on.
But how can Egyptians hold Morsi accountable for his promises and watch the progress in achieving them? Wael Ghonim tweeted about a new application for that.
@Ghonim: Tracking the performance of #Morsi (Egypt's newly elected president): http://www.morsimeter.com (via @ezzatkamel)
The application is created by Zabatak, (@Zabatak), a non-profit initiative which aims at making Egypt become bribery free, corruption-free and safe. And on MorsiMeter's Facebook page, they describe the application as follows [ar]:
Egyptian netizens shared their thoughts and opinions about the meter on Twitter as follows:
@MagedBk: Brilliant! http://Morsimeter.com
@omarkamel: MorsiMeter NOT a bad idea. But must also measure how good we think those ideas are to start with. Security plan SUCKS.
@AbdoRepublic: Brilliant idea to assess #morsi ‘s performance. Goodbye Dictatorship
This post is part of our special coverage of Egypt Elections 2011/2012.
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This is an awesome idea, though site seems to be down now.
Very nice idea
hope it is from muslim brother hood themselves
Thanks for the pointer to this. David Sasaki wrote a great post on promise-tracking recently: http://bit.ly/HhcOI6, and Tiago Peixoto followed up with his own thoughts (http://bit.ly/HHvOli), focusing more on parliamentary politicians than on the executive. Both well-worth reading in the context of this project!
STRANGE but how will it measure and who will measure that is important