Public
Private Partnership
Everywhere there is
a talk of public private partnership. That is a good idea, but this
partnership should not be taken as a partnership in investment only. It
should entail partnership in ideas also, and to have partnership in
ideas, social media is perhaps the best way, easily available as well
as affordable. Social media facilitates access to government and
creates new possibilities for community driven initiatives. It is for
the government to encourage a culture wherein the citizens come
forward and share their views for development as well as for
solutions to problems facing the government and the public alike.
These views are important because the dignitaries formulating public
policy may hardly take the views that commoners do. The policies
formulated taking into consideration these views are less likely to
fail, because these views combine widespread exposure to
developmental issues/problems with necessary wisdom. Inputs from
citizens who know the ground realities are invaluable. The
governments also, like corporates, can hardly afford to go for trial
and error. The more the failure ratio, less the trust of people at
large in the incumbent government. Recurrence of failures proves
fatal for any government. However, if people's view are taken into
consideration in policy formulation through devices like social
media, they would not take the failure as one on the part of
government only, because they were also involved in the process. That
way social media is an efficient tool from political angle also.
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