How can we make our country, Mauritius, better? Politicians come and go and sometimes don’t know what to do to because of, ahem, a lack of bright people with interesting ideas in their immediate vicinity…
I have set up a Google Moderator website called Ideas to make Mauritius better! where anyone can propose and vote for ideas that can really enhance our life in the Republic of Mauritius (and this includes Rodrigues and the other islands.) To begin with, I’ve proposed 22 ideas and some of them are somewhat, ahem, controversial. Then, instead of having politicians who indulge in the contemplation of their respective navels all day long, maybe a few of them will stumble upon this website and say:
Aha! Those ideas are really excellent. Let me implement some of them. Maybe the country will benefit. And maybe people will be more inclined to vote for me during the next elections. This really looks like a win-win situation.
Who wants to participate? Your idea(s) might change our future!
Popularity: 1% [?]
March 6th, 2009 at 07:29
Shouldn’t there be a way to comment???
March 6th, 2009 at 08:08
Nice incentive!
You always find original ideas
March 6th, 2009 at 10:56
Hmm… good initiative. This is a good idea and I really do hope our dear politician will see this. Why not..they can even use these ideas in their next campaign lol. Well nothing bad as long as they also do it later on else we kick them lol.
By the way Avinash you are invited for the Bloggers of Mauritius survey 2009 on my blog
There is a little form there with 7 question. Your participation will be much appreciated 
Thanks in advance and the link to it is here.
March 6th, 2009 at 19:17
voted on almost all IDEAS. Really nice and neat initiative. Perfect platform for sharing ideas.
**Didnt know google provides this “app” **
March 6th, 2009 at 22:54
Yeah. I didn’t too. Just found out that yesterday and I immediately thought of that way to use it. Of course, I was influenced by what Obama did between him being elected and him becoming president.
March 6th, 2009 at 23:04
To carrotmadman6:
Sure. You can comment on ideas by adding responses to them. Try it.
Incidentally, one thing that I’ve had to think a lot was whether I would allow ideas from anonymous people. In the end, I decided against that. Only authenticated users can contribute ideas and I think this will keep the standard relatively high.
March 7th, 2009 at 11:35
hi there. I was dead.
Yes. that’s a good idea. But I can’t seem to add comments.. Is it turned off?
and 250 characters is rather small.
March 7th, 2009 at 22:10
I personally see one thing which would make the statement below null
Aha! Those ideas are really excellent. Let me implement some of them. Maybe the country will benefit. And maybe people will be more inclined to vote for me during the next elections. This really looks like a win-win situation.
How will that help their vested interest…If you see what i mean…..too bad money is talking a lot lately but hopefully….hope still exists…even if its faint….
good idea though…will check it out
March 8th, 2009 at 10:23
Hi Yaasir,
That’s strange. When I log in, I can see the ideas and I can write responses (which are basically comments) to each of them. Don’t you see the same thing?
Check http://i41.tinypic.com/297i9i.png
March 8th, 2009 at 11:06
It could depend on permissions for normal user. You are the app admin so you should have all rights by default.
March 8th, 2009 at 15:37
Yaasir,
You’re right. Only the creator (me!) has the right to post responses to contributed questions. It seems that Google believes that responses should be used only for exceptional circumstances and should not be used as a commenting system.
I’m going to delete the few responses I wrote and we’ll try to use the system as it is for a few days.
March 8th, 2009 at 17:47
That’s a really nice idea set up… Well it will be effective only if the politicians have not come here for their own personal gain…
March 10th, 2009 at 17:17
Kudos! Avinash’s solution stands as proof that a few can make a difference. I look forward to reading about how some (hopefully most) of these ideas from the pool becomes real.