Thanks Sandra and Roque, specially for taking up an issue which was raised some time ago.
My belief is that a lot of what goes on in Goa is tolerated because it goes under-reported, un-exposed. Citizens' groups are doing a useful job, but their focus is mostly fire-fighting. In addition, there is a lot of sniping and intra-activist politicking, based on politics, ideology, perception or preferences. Cyberspace has changed that ... but only to some extent. The web isn't all that widely read locally. Besides, the web generates village-based content only in an inconsistent manner, and not in sufficient quantum. (There are some exceptions, where active contributors are located.) If there are young people eager to learn, we could work out some way of mentoring them. Maybe even Goanet could take this up as a project. It could be a very good investing in knowing what are the issues affecting our villages and the people there. FN On 9 February 2010 15:43, M DESOUZA <ssds.deso...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > This is also something that is well overdue. How we could get people > preferably youngsters from our villages to report about the village, what > happens in our village, history etc lets see how we can take this forward. > It would be good to start with Saligao as already taken steps to change the > way our village feast should function. Frederick did also suggest this. -- Frederick Noronha Columnist :: journalism :: editing :: alt.publishing :: photography :: blogging
