The Prime Minster of former Soviet state Kazakhstan has ordered his minsters to start personal blogs.
In a surprise move, Masimov started his own blog last week with his first post receiving 152 comments already. People have apparently complained about the quality of tap water in villages which initiated an immediate investigation into the complaints.
This is all quite surprising considering the international opinion of the state. President Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former communist party boss, has ruled Kazakhstan since 1989 and has never been democratically elected nor re-elected.
Regardless, the blogs are scheduled to appear live by the end of January not leaving much time for the minsters to install their plugins!
Personally I think it’s a fabulous idea, however the pessimist in me can’t help but picture the government publishing ‘fake’ positive comments to paint a pretty picture of the country for outsiders. I wonder if the concept will spread elsewhere? I can’t see why not.
I’d love to see this one start “blogging” Zee!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islom_Karimov
Nice to see it’s written in Kazakh (the official state language) and also in Russian.
Also very brave to put a ‘rating’ element on each blog. The contact page specifies that any messages sent will be looked at by ‘a specialist working for the Prime Minister’ so you may not quite reach the PM’s inbox.
It’d be easy to be cynical, but among the comments, one of the first asks what polotical or technical reason the Kazakh government has to block access to http://www.livejournal.com – and another asks why the blog is in Russian (most comments are made in Russian). Another says there’s no need for Kazakh, as they don’t speak the language.
So I don’t think it’s a ’50-cent-army’ kind of propaganda exercise, otherwise such comments would have been rapidly airbrushed by the ‘specialists’. It’s government 2.0 – for the moment.
High faaaive!
please see also: http://tinyurl.com/95m29p (in German)
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