Political militancy in Internet is growing

Next Monday the second part of the Blog y Política [Blogs and Politics] course that we are giving with the Generación Libre Foundation starts. There are 300 students from all over the country as well as Latin America that have joined this collective challenge of improvement.
The explosion of the New Technologies into the modern world has quickly changed social behaviors.
In March, 2004, following the Atocha attack, the Spanish people (by using a rudimentary tool: cell phone messages) turned around the official information that the traditional communications media where spreading and changed the trend for the Presidential elections.
A little over a year later, the victims of the English subway terrorist attack told the world their stories through their blogs. Ever since then the trend has only grown: currently, worldwide, there is new blog per second.
The political world has gotten the message and for a few months now the main presidential candidates in the U.S. have announced their intentions of leading the country directly through their blogs.
The have broken away from the traditional communications media that now have to turn to blogs to get first-hand information about projects.
Other things are happening nowadays with the campaign for the Chief of Government for the City of Buenos Aires. The main candidates for the most sophisticated election district in the country currently have their blogs up and running (in different shapes and forms, but they are surfing the present).
In my province, Tucumán, my friends in the Government Secretariat are doing an excellent job with their personal blogs. Horacio Elsinger's analyses are noteworthy and have a rhythm that hopefully will be maintained. In the last couple of days I got to know two young brave Tucumanos whose ideas are contrary to those of my government, but they had the courage to make public my political vision and take the high ground in contradicting me: Javier González (only 16 years old) and Mariano Bertelli Ramos.
Thanks also to Pablo Mancini and Eduardo Betas.
Political militancy starts a new age with us and we are all exclusive players, pioneers of our sort. Seba knows that and that's why his work is titanic. Celina and Daniela are up to any challenge.
Thanks to all of our course classmates for their words. They are very stimulating and show us what we can accomplish when we have common, doable and well-chosen goals.
Especially Susana, with her "the empty inheritance that we Argentines have leads to an invitation to take what belongs to us..."
That is what we are talking about when we refer to our future, making it ours, making the best decisions. This is why we have to be better prepared than ever to take on the challenges of the modern world.
We also have to make these public discussion areas of ideas and collective projects present in more places, get more people involved and get the people to organize themselves collectively. That is good.
I also want to tell you what we want with the Generación Libre Foundation.
Our goal is to spread the virtues of the new technologies regarding information and knowledge.
We think it’s everyone's responsibility to make more and more people aware of its benefits, which are basically twofold: access to free knowledge and ease in relating to the people.
This two tools are currently available through Internet and people's lives are improving because of it.
And we believe that that is the aim of politics.