Communication: Key to Success

Day 652, 21:31 • Published in Japan Japan • by Akki

This will be my third campaign article that I write to our voters, our citizens, and those who are given this ultimate power to decide the nest leader of the country. In my first article, I announced my official announcement to run for the president of Japan. On the second article, I covered in depth regarding the military policy I planned to implement due to the overwhelming questions the voters held regarding the reforms from the current policies that were being proposed. And for our third article, I shall cover one of the most important requirements you need as an effective leader: Communication.

Communication is one simple factor that depends not on your experience, or who you have with you as a group. It is one factor it depends on yourself and only you can truly tell others what you are thinking about. Sure; your friends can tell you what you are probably thinking. However, only you truly know what exactly you are thinking about. Active communication is everything country needs to keep its functions from falling apart.

In the current month, the communication between the public and the executive branch of the government has gone silent. Simply, president that only write article on the time of election, and let the other talk for him during his office are simply unacceptable; and is only disrespecting the public by assuming they know what is going on. The great truth to be told is that the public really don’t know anything about you, and they are in state of uncertainly. They are in fuzzy and unclear cloud that is causing them to be lost. There is no visible trail for them to follow. Only that who knows about the trail already understands anything going on.

This destruction to our government’s transparency and destruction of the communication between the public and the president in the past month is something which our country should not endure. The office of presidency is one title within the game that is given the most responsibility and power within the game. Could our public report what they needs to their leader if leader cuts the communication line from them? The obvious answer is no.

In the past, there has been more direct line of communication between the president and his citizens within the game, where all citizens, even those who aren’t active in forum or IRC, can have chance to speak and to have open communication with the president. The president has given the public his appearance through article ensuring the public of what is going on or anything that has happened, which may matter to our country. Simple regular update from the leader alone puts great deal of assurance to the people he leads.

However, such thing is completely absent from the game right now. Currently, only those who regularly visit the president can truly find him open or available for question or comment. Only 50 or so citizen from our entire nation of 1850 citizens is given opportunity to communicate much with the leader they elect. Although IRC is very effective in providing less formal communication between the leaders and his citizens, it is inadequate to inform other thousand citizens about the current event in such excluded space from the game.

I think I have stated many times in the past but I will say it again. Doing something and succeeding is different from doing nothing and making no mistake. Surely, inactivity will lead to no failure since there is nothing to screw up. However, it can never succeed either. Inactivity only leads to the void in the leadership, which places great weakness in our government open to those leaches which goes to where power is, and suck as much power as they can take in from them.

However, many may ask what I propose to do or change to increase the communication between the government and the citizens.

The plan isn’t that complex as it seem, however only require dedication from the leaders. One thing for sure that will change is that there will be more direct communication taken by the president to reach out to the citizen by the simple use of the articles. Although they are not fancy as IRC, they are basic communication tools for the game which everyone has access to. There will be direct article from the president addressing every day to international issues that may affect the everyday lives of its citizens. I shall do my best to try to keep direct communication. What this means is that there will be no more pesky middlemen you have to do through to get your information. Leaving a comment in my article or sending me simple pm will get all the answer you need to keep the citizens informed. The citizens will know that I am here for them, for I shall do my best to make sure I make enough presence in the public so I can be contacted with great ease. I shall NOT under any circumstances go hide myself in the closet. That will be simply rude to all those who have casted their vote for me.

It is another goal to try to get the ministers in charge of their own department to post their statement here on the game using articles as well. At the current time, if they do post an report or statements at all, it is only being posted on the forum or reported only to small member within the government. While forum is nice and I do support the continual improvement on the forum, we must accept the sad truth that not everyone reads forum that regularly and forum does have rather exclusive feeling to those who are not accustomed to it. At least posting of simplified or conclusive report from each cabinet member on the article at least one a 2 week, it will help reach out for those who are not regularly considered the “in” group in the current administration. If our country wishes to have any future at all, instead of creating deeper ditch between the users that uses only the game, only the forum, or both forum and IRC, we are only destroying the future of ourselves. Rather, instead of singling out one type of communication over another, all communication tools must be used to their full potential to keep the information abundant.

Although all these points raised in this article seems quite minor, and many may not care much in daily life, I believe for an active and effective leadership to take charge of this country, abundance of information and the educated citizens are core factors into the advance of our country. What good is our army if the people who are paying for them don’t know what exactly is going on? What good will foreign relations do if the citizens don’t know the current relations between the countries we have official contact with? (do you know who represent you in PEACE? How about in Sol?) What good with mentoring program do if public isn’t constantly aware of the fact that the program exists? How could you feel included in the government if you don’t know what government do? How would you criticize someone if you know nothing about them or you do not see any actions from them? These are only some of the questions that may come to citizens’ mind with failed communication.

Even something which seems unconnected is related. Our failure to secure South Korea last congressional election even streams from lack of communication. Due to the fact not enough contact were made between the government and its people, our country has failed to help South Korea and its people, and we lost by 1 vote. If there were greater communication made between the government and our citizens, perhaps we would see a strong and vibrant South Korea next to our country. However, at the time of South Korea’s peril, our country was left without the leader to help them. Our president was inaccessible, and our vice president (who should be in charge while the president was away) was busy shouting “JAPAN: Please vote for Jbic75 in Gyeonggi-do for congress! Please PM me for moving tickets if needed!” when perhaps that 1 very vote could have change the eternal future of South Korea. This is failed communication which happens in everyday life of Japan at the current time, and we must fix it. Simply, copying an old article from the past and adding small edits into it is not a tolerable way to communicate.

Japan needs leader, and she needs leader that will communicate with her to keep her assured that there is someone here in charge. Communication is key to our nation’s success, and that will be something that I will work very hard to fix and improve to return the power to every citizens of eJapan to make sure all of the voice of eJapan is being resonated within our government. Our people are not the tool of the government, and rather, the government and those who hold position are the tools of the people; and I plan to honour that very greatly. He doesn’t work for me if he doesn’t work at all. Thank you.

Connecting our past with future like Moebius strip.

Akki

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