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Right honourable QR codes
Tim Green Oct 1 2008, 11:00am
Welsh Assembly politician Lesley Griffiths is using QR codes to help constituents get in touch.
The member for Wrexham AM claims to be the first UK politician to use the 2D barcode technology and it’s hard to believe she’s wrong. QR Codes are more commonly used as marketing tools for companies. They typically link to a website address, email and telephone number. Once the QR code is scanned the phone will then open up its web browser and re-direct the user.
Griffiths now plans to print barcodes on all paper communication sent from her office.
She said: “'In future, I hope my QR barcode will be printed on leaflets and written communication. This code will include my contact information - phone, email and web address. Instead of constituents laboriously typing all that detail into their phones, they can now just simply scan the barcode and all my details can easily be saved to their phone.”
