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Agree a great idea. As social media enables participation access,
collaboration and even transparency and has great potential to
enhance governance processes by way of facilitating participation
from broad based stakeholders/constituencies. Some of the features
can be used/applied to many aspects of governance, including
feedback on anti corruption initiatives, maintaining participation,
direct involvement in policy processes, deliberations, etc. <br>
<br>
However, there are some fundamental limitations we must keep in
mind and deal with. To begin with, the disparity in internet
access with social media services still reflects an education and/or
class bias. Additionally, folks tend to join most networks as a
means to an end, for example joining some lists knowing that they
are more likely to get the ear of the service provider and/or
government and this over reliance would in the long run ends up
undermining efforts that require commitment and follow through, for
those who have been members of this list will bear witness to this
particularly when it comes to policy processes. <br>
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So are social networks the magic bullet to participation? I also
tend to think that social media sites have not really been developed
for governance in the way we may be thinking, for example face book
has a person cap, further, most of these sites were designed in ways
to encourage participation to serve advertising revenue so perhaps
we would need our very talented developers/skunks etc to begin to
think about developing Social media platforms suited to our
governance, anti corruption etc needs. A good example remains
ushaidi.<br>
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Best<br>
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Alice<br>
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cite="mid:BANLkTimSn9h4abgm54sgYPPiCetQE+m7bA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">This is actually a brilliant idea.
Especially aggregating information on Social Media platforms. We
already have some companies (e.g. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gotissuez.com">www.gotissuez.com</a>) who
report on such matters (corruption, poor service etc). We
additionally have social media monitoring platforms that would be
able to get random information on twitter about certain topics
(e.g. you can monitor what people say about brand X or brand Y),
many companies are already this sort of thing in place as it
offers feedback on both the negative and positive aspects (many
times, what is being done right is ignored). Additionally,
consistent feedback that there is a problem in a particular area
will point the anti corruption agencies in the right direction.
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<div> Many companies use this information to monitor brand equity
and customer complaints. It's just an issue of doing the same
thing for the government... <br>
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<div>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:05 PM, <span><<a
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Lusters,<br>
I spent most of the day at KIA with other colleagues,
civil society,<br>
religious groups and KEPSA to discuss strategies for
fighting corruption.<br>
It was evident that as we get closer to election, the
level of corruption<br>
goes up (read sugar). There was a sense of
frustration that we are not<br>
making much progress. There was a dim of hope in the
sense that where we<br>
have automated, revenues are up and less corruption.
It was also clear<br>
that we (civil service) had sufficient delegated
authority to<br>
significantly change the future of our nation. In
areas where social<br>
media has been put to use, up to 60% of graft can be
detected even before<br>
it is concluded.<br>
<br>
If we scale up the use of social media, a senior KACC
official tells me<br>
that they would gladly embrace it. In this list we
have many smart<br>
people. I need suggestions how we can integrate SMS,
Twitter, Facebook<br>
and any other tool to assist in the fight against this
scourge. In my<br>
considered view, the anwser lies in technology.<br>
<br>
However, One of the presenters said that the western
method of fighting<br>
corruption through courts could be the problem. If
you recall in 2008 at<br>
the height of the post election crisis in Mombasa, one
businessman did not<br>
have to go to court to recover his goods opting to see
a witch doctor.<br>
<br>
Any views would be highly appreciated.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Ndemo.<br>
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