In UK, Gordon Brown is seeking to embrace the digital age by launching an online version of prime minister's questions. He has pledged to respond to video clip questions submitted via the Downing Street YouTube website. The prime minister, who is trying to reconnect with younger voters, said the forum would be a "regular event".
BBC political correspondent Jo Coburn said the prime minister's online question time was a bid to counter claims by David Cameron that he was an "analogue politician in a digital age". It was also an answer to the Tory leader's live webcam broadcasts from his breakfast table, which made him appear more in touch with technology, BBC correspondent added.
In an introductory video on the Downing Street YouTube site, Mr Brown says the online question and answer sessions will be a "regular event" and offers to answer questions on globalisation, climate change, housing, jobs and public services. "Politicians get a chance in prime minister's question time and other question times - I think it's time the public had a chance," he says.
Users are asked to file their questions for the Ask The PM sessions via the site by 21 June.
