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7 Questions and 7 Answers on 07.07.08
2. Why are these legitimate as the New 7 Wonders of the World? How did you ensure that very populous countries did not “hijack” the election?
From S. Bloomfield in the United Kingdom, Carlos Figueroa in Guatemala, and many others.Bernard Weber: I feel very strongly that world heritage, as the name says, belongs to the people of the world. Over 100 million votes from every corner of the world very clearly legitimizes the New 7 Wonders of the World. And we are estimating over 1 billion votes for the New7Wonders of Nature. These are choices made by the people of the world and belong to all the people of our world.
These huge numbers stand in contrast to the one man who chose the Ancient 7 Wonders of the World, and it is also very different from the only 21 people who select the World Heritage list of over 850 locations at UNESCO.
When I had the vision of bringing the world together to choose the New 7 Wonders of the World, I knew that using the power and reach of modern communications technology would be the fairest, and indeed the only, way to hold a global vote and reaching as many people as possible. The number of people with access to the Internet is growing each day, and many more already use mobile telephones. The fact that a huge percentage of the over 100 million votes were from the developing world shows that there is a growing desire in all countries to interact with people around the world.
To make sure that the vote not only was as fair as possible, but it really got people thinking about the world around them, everyone voting in a New7Wonders campaign through our website must submit 7 votes. This means that each person in a country with a finalist had to vote for 6 finalists that were not in his or her country! So it was impossible for any one country to dominate the voting. As the international media pointed out: “The poll itself is a wonder,” said the Reuters news agency and the Associated Press called New7Wonders “Something new to bring the world together.” For more information, see the voting analysis.
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