Sustainable development can be made easier to maintain if there is equality and fairness among citizens. This can only be achieved through empowering the citizens to be able to have a say to issues concerning them.
Everybody has a right to information no matter one has a voice to say something or is given decision by somebody.Considering crimes committed in dark hours where nobody
is expected to be seeing these scenes.There is one who may witness or told who will have done these crimes. The only way to safe guard whoever has information is to empower them as citizens and give them protection.
I feel at present I am not well informed correctly of some important issues. Our media information sometimes is very false to the point of misleading people to what something should be. This is at times done by greedy people for money or hatred yet they end up tarnishing other people's images badly.Some information given can be used to pull someone down or give stress because of too much lies exposed by greedy false reporters with a motive to promote their own interest.If you look at so many statics published most of them end up being false some either positive or negative in order to please politicians , policy makers and promoters of programmes just for money.
I get to know some serious issues through emails,letters, calls,phone books, through newspapers ,radio, television programmes cellphone messages and fax messages.Anybody who tries to give the names of suspects should not be questioned as if they have done something wrong. If people are not empowered information may be lost because people would be hesitant to come out the right information needed either by the families, responsible authority and the state itself. For example the information needed concerning the arsonists who burnt the house of Mary Fox a 59 year old woman in Comwell who ended up dying in trying to save her son. The public was informed to write emails and any other means to assist the police to catch these yobs.For this information to come out positively there is need to empower and promise safety to everyone.
Ellen De Genres in the Reader's digest (2009)says "Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you". Some people may not give information because they may not have full evidence to what they know, because there is a lot of evidence required to catch the culprits who break law.
Margaret Thatcher is quoted in the same reader's digest(2009) saying, "Advisers advice but Ministers give decisions".Some of the complicated issues like economics, science are difficult concepts to understand yet they are to have someone to decide for us. This could be unfair at times because decisions made can be generalised or have a bias towards some people. Some people may benefit while others feel oppressed.
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Thank you for your comments. Do you believe that it is a good thing that other people make high level decisions for us?
ReplyDeleteYes, it is true that people in general are concerned about lack of information that directly or indirectly affect their freedom. The question is how do people as individuals or groups seek to address the issue of effective communication? How then can citizen-empowerment be addressed? People have a tendency of receiving infomation with different perceptions may be because of their political or socio-economic backgrounds
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