Public services: accountability to domocracy

Experience shows that core public services are not necessarily more efficient under performance-linked private contracts. As with hospital private financiers, or Nord Anglia's flirtation with Hackney's schools or the shady "academy" operators, costs soar and continuous leadership, experience and community involvement long associated with public institutions cannot be legally enforced. Capita may run a smooth congestion charge, but do we want it running the Metropolitan police? We have lost sight of the difference between accountability to a contract and to democracy. >

Simon Jenkins, Guardian, 28 Feb




The sense of direction that media takes as opinion maker is important for the accuracy of beliefs held by the population about the state of the world in which they live. Free spread of information for global audiences requires the elimination of geographical monopolies on law, enabling even greater and more vibrant exchange of ideas and experiments.

Pluralistic line of thought and information is built on multi dimensional version of truth. For this to realize crafting independent institutions that legally protect freedom of information and their conveyors, allow smooth and divers transmission of information and original situation analysis.

Within this framework media is enabled to inform different social players to make informed decisions. Informative, reliable and unbiased analysis generates trust and understanding that is needed for community to advocate the right policy. A successful journalist is one who has influence generated by originality; that her writings impacts upon the actions taken by social actors.


Media has the responsibility of nurturing intellectual capacity of the public and to provide the learning environment that enables individuals to transform or revise beliefs through communication.


Media must take the role of impartial friend who draws reliable, positive, and non-cynical picture of the truth but allowing people to follow their own path in a multitude of directions free from fear of humiliation for their decisions. Nurturing a society that is intellectually mature to bear consequences of their chosen social policies.