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Policies soon for engagement with social
media, citizens
Thursday April 05, 2012 05:21:11 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: The union ministry of communications and
information technology is drafting a policy for use of social
media by various departments and another for engaging citizens in
designing government programmes, a top official said Thursday.
J. Satyanarayana, secretary, department of electronics and
information technology, said the frameworks were at the draft
stage and hoped that very soon they would come out as policies.
He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of an international
conference on 'Revisiting Internet governance lessons learnt and
road ahead' being organized by the Institute of Global Internet
Governance and Advocacy, NALSAR University of Law.
"We have created a draft framework for using the social media by
various departments of government of India and the state
governments," he said.
He noted that while some departments like Delhi Police have taken
a lead, there is a need for all others to use the powerful medium
effectively to enable people to interact and express their
concerns or appreciation of their decisions.
Satyanarayana said there was no proposal under consideration at
this stage to have a regulatory mechanism for social media in view
of the recent incidents. "It is dialogue which is more important
rather than regulation," he said in reply to a query.
"Our focus is on how to use social medium as a positive
instrument. It is a powerful medium. There is a huge positive
side. There may be some shortfalls here and there but we have to
have a dialogue and correct them," he said when asked if the
department would ask the social media like Google, Facebook and
Twitter to tune their websites.
The ministry is drafting another framework to engage citizens in
the design of various government programmes. This is aimed at
plugging the gap between the field reality and what is being
designed and planned.
The ministry already held consultations with civil society.
"We are hoping that very soon it would be published and then it
would become a guiding factor for shaping various new schemes the
government will be launching in future," he added.
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