Hi members of GKD,
Few more thoughts i would like to share viewing the potential of this
aspect of debate.
No wonder what Zubair is suggesting here is important
and perhaps the only way to ensure real participation at both community
and societal level. However, being loyal to the marginalized should by now
be able to establish itself as a concrete fact-of-the-matter whose making
into more concrete reality might be over-utilisation of useful
resources and under-estimation of other equally grave realities in the
making. In this regard, perhaps this is right time to also analyse other
equally important aspects of this same belief. This would roughly entail
those that are literate, have some access to information but due to
unsystematic approach towards embracing ICTs within no time has a
kind of destabilizing effect over this segment in particular and we can't
really do away its generic expression overall. And most importantly with
every hour passing by, this effect is also achieving a state of
multiplicity. Therefore not just that poor should witness the element of
ownership but ICTs itself should be a way-forwarding in this respect and
could be achieved by implementing according to fragmented/distributive
need of various sectors of society. Unavoidably, these would comprise the
poor and the gonna-be poor i just indicated in above lines.
Not just that collective transparency is achievable this way but
its individual manifestation can also be brought about.
regards,
Aman Azhar.
SDNPK-LHR
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Zubair Faisal Abbasi wrote:
>
> Extending the argument of Vikas, I would say that the work of Albert
> Hirschman on 'Exit-Voice strategies' which are mediated by 'loyalty' is
> of great importance and relevance here. I feel the point in any mechanism
> of good government (whether with e or without e) lies in the sense of
> ownership amongst the stakeholders, particularly within 'state and society'.
> This ownership or sense of loyalty is generated through a whole range of
> inclusionary practices like 'disclosure, transparency, trust, participation
> (at all socio-economic levels) and a pro-poor community development
> perspective which creates social capital for equitable development.
>
>
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