Community | July 07, 2009 | 13 comments

White House asks Ghanans to send Obama a text

source: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/07/africans_invited_to_text_obama_before_ghana_s...

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President Obama is giving a speech to Ghana's Parliament on July 11...and in an interesting new media twist, the White house is asking Ghanans to text in questions to the President that will be answered in a recording that will go out to local media outlets when he visits.

Neat idea and potentially a successful one given the widespread use of SMS in Ghana.

Do you think this is a pay-off on the kind of transparency the Obama Administration has been promising since the campaign?
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13 comments // White House asks Ghanans to send Obama a text

  • Solarlife
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      Solarlife  
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    • Prof. Mills, the President of Ghana, will be excited. Ghana, I like the country, specially with the capital Accra, the host for the 2008 Lighting Africa World Bank Program to replace Kerosene lamps by off-grid renewables was a great success. I plan to start there a Final assembly for Solar Electroboxes Africa. Anyone interested? Write me. Actually Ghana is the first country in Africa to receive a Smart Grid, starting 2009, to get power breaks 30 % down.

    • 2 years ago
  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  
    • Solarlife:

      One of my employees spent a week in Ghana and was amazed at the continous power (vs. Nigeria) and the overall friendliness of the people and organization of the country.

    • 2 years ago
  • Solarlife
  • MoonLoon
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      MoonLoon  

    • He will be flooded by messages. Ghanans and Nigerians love to send text messages. I hope we can get an update on the activity.

    • 2 years ago
  • conservativelyliberal
  • royulery
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      royulery  

    • the president is'nt one man; the staff, the party and it's lobbies are most it. obama is the performer, his main job is speaches, that he doesn't write.

    • 2 years ago
  • gen468
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      gen468  

    • Bull shit .
      think!
      The man is the President of the U,S
      He is dealing with the worse economy since the depression.
      He is dealing with two nuclear-armed lunatics.
      Do you think for a minute he has the time to read text from anyone other then his staff.
      This is media hype.
      Transparency ! how the hell does that apply to Ghanans sending him text.
      Only the most idiotic brain dead liberal eat this crap.

    • 2 years ago
  • Crenshaw_Brothers
  • MikefromhisG1
  • conservativelyliberal
  • MattMagee
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      MattMagee  

    • Hope he has an unlimited text plan. But seriously, could this work in the US? I think it would give him a better idea of what people are concerned about first hand. I can't wait to see how this pans out.

    • 2 years ago
  • current89
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      current89  

    • "Do you think this is a pay-off on the kind of transparency the Obama Administration has been promising since the campaign? "

      Yes, but i think the new website they setup is the larger payoff.

    • 2 years ago
  • dainjdc
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