Ggoal and the politics… of participation

Millions of people follow the Italian elections on the web. The race of the websites is aimed at providing election results in real time. The Ggoal community has done its duty in these days by providing a complete round up of information to its users. Information coming from other users. Ggoal’s task is obviously not to make predictions or forecasts, but, like every reputable search engine, to inform. To inform in detail about the different aspects regarding the 2008 Elections.

On this aspect Ggoal has not surpassed its own expectations. Thanks to the cooperation of a community which is growing considerably day by day, the people who have used the first Web 2.0 search engine have obtained what they were looking for. The elections are a complex topic, which do not only concern the knowledge of participating parties, but also the views of single candidates and mainly the existing electoral law. Yes, because the intelligent voter, like the intelligent user, could want to know for example the text of the law which leads us to the elections in these days.

Therefore, people who use the web to know, deepen and choose a crucial subject like the elections of their own country have to receive precise results, reliable answers and guarantee of neutrality meaning efficiency. In this the Ggoal community is leading the way. The Ggoal Team, which monitors the requests and suggestions by users, confirms that there have not been excessive cases of propaganda by users. The contributions which the staff received have all been oriented towards sharing information: precise, detailed, clean and impartial. This is a sign that Ggoal is a mature and intelligent community. This is also good politics and does politics good.

We wished to communicate this positive feedback, which has allowed the administrators to better understand the Ggoal team players, but above all has shown users that they can trust a fully human search engine.