One of the key areas impacted by the emergence of social media has been that of politics and governance. We have done several posts in the past on Government 2.0 to capture how local governments to administrative bodies, from Delhi Traffic Police to Ministry of External Affairs, Census to Planning Commission, all have started looking at ways they can embrace social media.
There has been one political figure in India, often referred to as the Twitter Minister, who through his early adoption of social media has enabled it become mainstream. Shashi Tharoor.
Member of Parliament, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and with over 9 lac followers on Twitter, among the most popular public figures in India, Shashi Tharoor was in New Delhi last week to speak about ‘The Reach & Impact of Social Media’. He spoke about the political uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, about growing interest of politicians such as Mamta Banerjee in social media, about Sachin Tendulkar surpassing him in terms of followers on Twitter (“records are for Sachin”, he quipped) and of interesting ways of using Twitter adopted by some of the political adversaries who actually dictate their Tweets.
We took a couple of videos on the go. We will be uploading more soon.
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