The government has decided to introduce Community Cabinet meetings, with the aim of bringing government working closer to the people. The decision was taken on Tuesday after Cabinet deliberations on finding ways to enhance Cabinet workings.
With Community Cabinet meetings, that will enable people to interact directly with the Cabinet, the government believes it will be in a better position to receive public inputs into decision- and policy-making, and understand public concerns on issues. For the Community Cabinet meetings, Cabinet ministers will travel to islands and hold meetings open for entire island communities.
Community Cabinets are forms of community forums held in few other democracies to strengthen government-public relations.
At today’s Cabinet meeting, which was held at the President’s Office, the Cabinet also discussed on using information communication technologies to improve the speed and quality of communication and flow of information between the Cabinet and the public.
The Cabinet decided to post its decisions on new media tools like Facebook, Twitter and other social networks which will be open for greater public discussion.
Already a Cabinet digitalisation project, managed by the Cabinet Office at the President’s Office, is underway and will be launched in December.
