Who said technology can't help democracy?

Aaron Scullion, from the BBC News online, finally managed to give us some publicity on our collective effort to protest to the Net censorship in Iran.."Iranian bloggers rally against censorship" focuses on how Iranians used the official blog of the Geneva Summit on Information to post comments about the issue of the censroship by government on political websites.

Meanwhile, Mr. Khatami, the President, is going to have a press confrenece and again the Simmt's blog has decided to do a great role by asking people to post their questions for Mr. Khatami and other members of the Iranian delegate. The press conference will be webcast live.

I don't know how to thank Cara Swift for her great support to this cause and the chance they gave us to raise our voice in their fantastic blog.

This is the best evidence of how a simple blog, in the right time and right place, can be used as a strong tool for political change--this is what technology can help democracy. isn't this what the whole summit is about?

By the way, my questions for president Khatami are the following:

• There are confirmed reports that your government has censorsed (or as they put it, filtered) several Iranian news websites and weblogs, with no sexual content. Your minister of telecommunication, Mr. Motamedi, has recently said that they only filter websites that are in a blacklist. Is that true? Do you approve filtering political websites that critisize the regime?

• Have you read the weblog of your deputy, Mr. Abtahi? What about other Persian weblogs? What do you think about Persian weblogs in general?

and one for Mr. Motamedi, the minister of Telecommunication:

• You've talked about a blacklist in your last press confrence. Why don't you publicize this blacklist so we can file for complains if our website is filtered by mistake? How can we ever know that without having that list?

Hope Cara and her freinds get the chance to ask them.