E-engagement: Is government ready to loosen hold on agenda?

The AIMS council believes it is beneficial for the Government to interact on a sustained basis with Singaporeans via new media on issues of public policy. But if the Government wants to engage citizens in the new media as the report envisions, it cannot always set the agenda. This is quite radical, given that the Government’s prerogative to set the agenda has remained one of the fundamentals in Singapore since independence.

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