International Law

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has finally found a use for YouTube:

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".

Mr Brown also addressed Google's annual conference, where he promised a hi-tech revolution in UK public services.

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 digital technologies, our 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.

Read more here (from BBC News).  I wonder Kevin Rudd will also attempt to engage with YouTube (outside of an election campaign)?