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I think there has been some very good discussion today on Discord regarding this. I think most people seem in favor of keeping certain Ministries such as FA, WAA, and RA as appointed positions, given their need for congruence with the Delegate in terms of policy and agenda, while allowing the other ministries to be elected positions. There have been some discussions regarding the specific ministries, combining them, removing some, and reforming others that I’d like to bring up officially here as well.
I will echo some of the thoughts I had regarding the Ministry of Education from the Discord:
“I think it’d be a positive change to remove Education as a ministry entirely and utilize the University as a regional institution instead of just part of the executive. I think the sort of care and attention it requires calls for that sort of approach and will ensure that the person in charge of staffing it and developing it is wholly committed to those efforts. Especially when the tangibles like developing courses and learning material does take quite some time and effort.”
So essentially, the ‘Dean’ or ‘Instructor’ or whatever we call the head of the University would be a citizen-appointed position that would serve indefinitely. That way the person standing for this position clearly has that sort of commitment and it isn’t changing hands (potentially) every few months which can directly impede productivity and progress within the University. I think those that are working within it now can attest to how long it takes to develop a well-thought out course.
[mention]Libertanny[/mention] and I discussed the role of the Ministry of Design and how this is not necessarily needed and is inherently ineffective at its aim. Design/writing/any creative pursuit is something that is fluid, as are the levels of ability across that spectrum. I might be good at making flags, someone else might be better at making banners, someone else might be even better at making dispatch graphics, etc. It’d be better to promote designers and writers as sort of fluid executive roles. If Integration needs someone to make certain graphics, they can ping a designer role in the exec server and see who is willing to contribute, same thing with writing, whether it’s regionwides or newsletters.
I think it makes sense to merge Integration with the Police or abolish the Police as a whole and just hold Viziers accountable to being the security watch-dog force they are meant to be to begin with. I wouldn’t mind hearing others’ thoughts on combining, merging, and reforming some of our Ministries as a whole if we are going to go the direction of electing some of them.
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I truly agree, as said on discord, with your ideas.
I would, however, add mine to this.
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As for ICU (Information and Culture) I would separate them into Ministry of Information (or old name, Propaganda) and Ministry of Culture. And now, before I can beging with explaining why, I will have to change the topic for a moment.
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To ensure that elected Ministers are doing their job and if we were to write a bill / act on it, we would have to include base / main responsibilites of each ministry. That means, that a given Minister still has got a field for his own ideas and creativity, however, he will have to make sure, that base responsibilites of a ministry are always accomplished.
Another way, to make sure, that the Ministries are doing their job, is to give the Magisterium the right to create a vote of no confidence on a given Minister and therefore the right to remove that Minister and recall elections for that given position (credits to [mention]Fedele[/mention] ).
- As for separating Information and Culture, it is because I think, that they have kind of lost their founding purposes.
As for Information, their main purposes were: writing newspaper, posting newspaper in form of a dispatch and on forums, creating useful dispatches (f.e. How do I get started in TEP?), sharing interesting statistics and information (in cooperation with Immigration), creating a base of useful links, creating a base of all the official designs (badges, seals etc) of TEP in form of a cloud (accesible to any citizen) - and I could listing and listing. Basically, taking care of any information within our region.
As for Culture - creating CYOAs, taking care of festivals and events, creating competitions etc etc. As Zukchiva (I believe at least) once suggested, Culture could also cover finding our the culture of our region - what is our slang (like caek), what is RMB like - simply, what creates us.