Trust is needed between govt & people: DPM Teo
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SINGAPORE: Leaders from China and Singapore agree that governments need to maintain high levels of trust with their people in order to counter false information spread online.
The comments came at the Third China-Singapore Forum on Leadership in the Age of New Media.
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong launched his Facebook page in April and has reached some 50,000 likes so far.
It's the latest move by a Singapore leader to establish a presence and reach out to citizens in the new media arena.
And this is necessary, according to Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who's in Beijing to co-chair the third China-Singapore Forum on Leadership in the Age of New Media.
Speaking to an audience mainly made up of Chinese public officers-in-training, Mr Teo said trust needs to be kept between government and people, to act against falsehoods posted online.
"A new reality can also quickly develop if the posts, whether true or not, touch on sensitive issues that can spark retaliation, or mass disorder. Governments therefore need to be able to sense what is happening on the Internet quickly and to respond, often sooner than they might otherwise like," Mr Teo shared.
China and Singapore have experienced how new media is shaping the way information is being conveyed to the public.
Singapore saw the Internet play a more pronounced role in last year's General Election when opposition parties used it to reach out to voters.
And China recently saw how Twitter became the avenue for supporters of dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng to rally support for his release.
Minister of the Organisation Department, Communist Party of China, Li Yuanchao said: "Some of our leaders and agencies are still at a stage where they're not familiar with new media, they over-react and over-prevent instead of engaging. So when it comes to public service and attitude towards new media, we have made it key for public service cadres to strengthen their leadership skills under this new media environment."
And according to leaders from both countries at the forum, what this also means for governments and public officers in both China and Singapore, is that they'll now have to be better-trained to be more sensitive to what the people want and be more thoughtful in how they communicate with the people.
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if this survey is tellin the truth then he has no worry
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/s-poreans-not-surprised-at-trust-survey-results.html
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Why should there be more trust ? When there is none more options given .
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Trust must be earn.
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Give more freebies.
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Speaking to an audience mainly made up of Chinese public officers-in-training, Mr Teo said trust needs to be kept between government and people, to act against falsehoods posted online.
we ish kenna upgrade from "noise" to "falsehoods posted online"...
Only the "praise" on PM Lee's FB is truth, the dislike is all fake... Fwah, so delusional~
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
we ish kenna upgrade from "noise" to "falsehoods posted online"...
Only the "praise" on PM Lee's FB is truth, the dislike is all fake... Fwah, so delusional~
You are noise.
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So they will not bother about you.