Really quite confused this morning.
Between consultant gigs where people really don't want to be successful and thorough; just do superficial cross off the lists tasks. And in that, I see trinidad.
Then I begin to read the papers... and I am flabbergasted. Myriad persons: doctors,
...IT specialists, economists, thinkers, policy writers and problem solvers writing ideas in social and public media, clamoring for work to contribute to nation and capacity, posts in government ministries to write the tertiary education policy, (do you know they took a document written/scratched in 2004 and had non-specialists, anybody, give feedback and that is our 2010/2011 policy document to the EU?), write an integrated agricultural development plan, structure a consistent national clean up plan, develop employment programs for youth, redress and relocate the watershed flood plane, or contribute to the nation's economic restructuring; A myriad of Intents, and needs, gone unheard and ignored by this government. Posts empty. Work undone. Government Stagnancy
EXCEPT
...to hire media people to perfect the message. One may very well ask and wonder: Message of What? But that twist and conversion, where down is up and up is down, and the attendance to the external and superficial rather than internal, content, and real effect is disturbing beyond words. And all I see when i pause to ponder, what this really means--are visions of Alice in Wonderland.
Actions are your policy. Tell your value and Show your Intention>
Work, Policy, Governance and Government in Trinidad and Tobago, September 2010
Wow Who Knew?
you want to help your country? Gone are the days of Engineering, Policy, Practice and Thought. In are Spin, Weave, Lies, Stories and PR, sashes and waves, platforms, trucks and processions. Media. Blows my mind. Guess I better line up for a Social Media PP Client
Between consultant gigs where people really don't want to be successful and thorough; just do superficial cross off the lists tasks. And in that, I see trinidad.
Then I begin to read the papers... and I am flabbergasted. Myriad persons: doctors,
...IT specialists, economists, thinkers, policy writers and problem solvers writing ideas in social and public media, clamoring for work to contribute to nation and capacity, posts in government ministries to write the tertiary education policy, (do you know they took a document written/scratched in 2004 and had non-specialists, anybody, give feedback and that is our 2010/2011 policy document to the EU?), write an integrated agricultural development plan, structure a consistent national clean up plan, develop employment programs for youth, redress and relocate the watershed flood plane, or contribute to the nation's economic restructuring; A myriad of Intents, and needs, gone unheard and ignored by this government. Posts empty. Work undone. Government Stagnancy
EXCEPT
...to hire media people to perfect the message. One may very well ask and wonder: Message of What? But that twist and conversion, where down is up and up is down, and the attendance to the external and superficial rather than internal, content, and real effect is disturbing beyond words. And all I see when i pause to ponder, what this really means--are visions of Alice in Wonderland.
Actions are your policy. Tell your value and Show your Intention>
Work, Policy, Governance and Government in Trinidad and Tobago, September 2010
Wow Who Knew?
you want to help your country? Gone are the days of Engineering, Policy, Practice and Thought. In are Spin, Weave, Lies, Stories and PR, sashes and waves, platforms, trucks and processions. Media. Blows my mind. Guess I better line up for a Social Media PP Client
guardian.co.tt
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think i am weaving, close to seeing a theory and path of undevelopment--when you take people out of their posts, out of their expertise, out of the industry, space and relevance of their contribution and relevance, placing them in areas that are outside their solutions, thinking, other than the fact that, "they look good", "create a nice veneer", or "send out the needed message"...we retard our process. When the right people are not placed in the right positions...and Right does not mean who makes you feel good and comfortable, but who pushes and prods you to emerge...we create stagnancy. we stop the movement of water. we corrupt, cloud and mystify direction and purpose; we jerk chains, but alter nothing of substance
memes you can believe in.
Reading this spurred these ideas to a conclusion:
"Dear Editor/Head of News,
Re: http://guardian.co.tt/news/politics/2010/09/14/johnson-head-govt-s-info-unit
Whatever congratulations I might extend to my brethren [Andy Johnson and Clevon Raphael, regarding their new positions, respectively, as CEO of GISL and Special Adviser to the AG], I must temper with a tinge of sadness, for journalism in Trinidad and Tobago will be much poorer for their mutations. So! Andy! Clevon! It's up to you: to add lustre to my encomia. You will so augment if the same independence and fearlessness you used in your long and illustrious career are now applied in your alter egos.
Bless!
Richard Wm. Thomas,
5rivers.kid.publik@gmail.com
Five Rivers,
Arouca,
Trinidad and Tobago."
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think i am weaving, close to seeing a theory and path of undevelopment--when you take people out of their posts, out of their expertise, out of the industry, space and relevance of their contribution and relevance, placing them in areas that are outside their solutions, thinking, other than the fact that, "they look good", "create a nice veneer", or "send out the needed message"...we retard our process. When the right people are not placed in the right positions...and Right does not mean who makes you feel good and comfortable, but who pushes and prods you to emerge...we create stagnancy. we stop the movement of water. we corrupt, cloud and mystify direction and purpose; we jerk chains, but alter nothing of substance
memes you can believe in.
Reading this spurred these ideas to a conclusion:
"Dear Editor/Head of News,
Re: http://guardian.co.tt/news/politics/2010/09/14/johnson-head-govt-s-info-unit
Whatever congratulations I might extend to my brethren [Andy Johnson and Clevon Raphael, regarding their new positions, respectively, as CEO of GISL and Special Adviser to the AG], I must temper with a tinge of sadness, for journalism in Trinidad and Tobago will be much poorer for their mutations. So! Andy! Clevon! It's up to you: to add lustre to my encomia. You will so augment if the same independence and fearlessness you used in your long and illustrious career are now applied in your alter egos.
Bless!
Richard Wm. Thomas,
5rivers.kid.publik@gmail.com
Five Rivers,
Arouca,
Trinidad and Tobago."
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