Botswana Speaks: A quantum leap

Styled Botswana Speaks, the pilot project was to be launched alongside a public lecture at the University of Botswana's (UB) Library Auditorium explaining - and celebrating - this quantum leap.  According to advance information on the project, the pilot phase of Botswana Speaks is run from this month until December.  Four constituencies - the South East South, Nata/Gweta, Maun West and Boteti North - have been selected for the test run of the project after which it is to be rolled out countrywide.

The key objectives of this project - to get citizens better connected with their elected representatives and render to them an opportunity to get involved in the national decision-making process - are immensely laudable.  For example, when Parliament is debating a bill, the public should be able to comment on the bill even in real time.