Information in the service of governance: Plenary session no.3: The role of the private sector "Private - Public: A marriage of convenience"

Abstract

Internet, Television, Urbanization, Democracy and above all Literacy have transformed the whole world in a small microcosm where African citizens has also ended up by developing new needs, like what is going on elsewhere. Because he has seen on the television that somewhere else things are done in this way, because he realized that he could ask that; he becomes over-particular and even insatiable. Used to the pranks of the welfare state, the citizen today believes that it is his right to require such quality of service from his leaders. This demand ended up by putting pressure upon the leaders who then hurried up to achieve projects-under electoral mandate obligation-when they didn't always had the means to deliver