Notebooks and calls with mobile phones are definitely forbidden, iPads are allowed. Actually, I ask myself, where is the sense in this rule? If I were a Member of the Bundestag, I’d feel annoyed by people, checking their emails while I make a speech. Or twittering jokes at the same time, as the German newspaper “taz” has found out.. On the other hand, it makes politics more attractive, when you can follow the opinions of several Members of the Bundestag live via Twitter.
The official explanation for the iPad is, that it hasn’t got a keyboard and makes no noise. Moreover, it is now allowed to use the iPad to make a speech, when you don’t want to print out the manuscript. Thanks to Jimmy Schulz (FDP), making the first speech with the help of his iPad, the console is now allowed. But his speech has actually not been his best. With the help of the youtube-video you can find a quite rugged speech.
But the biggest scandal about new technologies and social media in parliament, has been the “twitter-scandal”. During the election of president Horst Köhler, three members published the result on twitter, before it was official. And others created fake accounts of prominent members and published even false results during the election 2010.
by Ger_watch
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