I support David on this. Or should I say +1 David. Live broadcasts are not practical at this stage when we have so many candidates and may indeed give some unfair advantage over others. As long as we know the criteria, and the assessment is fairly objective, I think we will get good candidates. That said, oral interviews should only carry a certain percentage as some good speakers are not necessarily be good performers. Maybe oral performance should only contribute 50% of the overall mark/grade. The rest should be based on past performance/experience, integrity, etc. I think ethnicity should not even be considered as principal secretaries are technocrats whose major assets should be experience, knowledge, skill, integrity and such professional characteristics.

One thing though … I have seen little in the media to indicate they have done any background checks on the shortlisted people. All I see is names. This is where investigative journalism should kick in. David, where did investigative journalists (bar Jicho Pevu) and 'responsible' journalistic media go?. And I think the subject in this discussion should be: 'Why bar …' instead of ' … barr'! (tongue-in-cheek!)

George


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On Apr 30, 2013, at 2:03 PM, dmakali@yahoo.com wrote:

Edith:
Media ought to and should cover those interviews and repory as robustly as possible on the proceedings but am abit hesitant about live coverage because of the number of applicants. Later interviewees are likely to be helped by screenings of the early candidates.  For that reason, and to expose all applicants to the same heat, I would waive my desire to "participate" via live transmiSsion.

My position would change if it took a shorter time (say 2 days) and the applicants were only 5 to ten, and none would take the advantage of preparing further after watching others being interviewed.

But, unfortunately, there will be no shortlist for final vetting. Only the nominee picked by the president from among the 3 recommended per ministry will be vetted by the appointments committee. And that's where the live broadcast may come in because the public will still have a chance to submit on their suitability or otherwise.

David

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The assumption is that the shortlist will have the best? How will you know?

I still think both can be done, public can be present plus media could cover it sequentially as you coordinated yourselves for the Presidential debate.

Edith

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Makali has put forward my prefered approach. His approach allows for real 'public participation' by allowing representation of views by the public.

For private media, it's impractical to have 155 persons on live TV continuously for 10 or so days. May the coverage be on the final shortlist, instead.

I doubt there's need to attack the character of the Chair of PSC.
Instead, submit representations to PSC about the candidates by Thursday, demand public rep. is allowed to be present at interviews and limit live broadcast to fewer candidates.

On 4/30/13, dmakali@yahoo.com <dmakali@yahoo.com> wrote:
Mayb we need to interrogate the meaning of "public participation"
threshold of the constitution.  Does watching or holding a recruitment
process in the open space - on tv or a physical venue like kicc -
constitute public participation or is it that every citizen is free
and has an opportunity to be considered and to raise any matter
pertinent to the recruitment and potential recruits that counts?

Methinks the latter, which has been complied with by psc advertising
and inviting any1 interested to apply. That also meets the "competitive"
criterion.

The next demand we should put on them is to facilitate or make it
possible for any1 who wants to sit in the room to observe the process
or to submit any information that may assist it to recruit the right candidates do so.
That complies with the transparency requirement.

The interviews can otherwise become a farce at this stage if the
template is applied across the 155 applicants.  The live broadcast can
come at the final stahe wen the shortlisted go before Parliament where
scrutiny should be even more thorough and of a different kind - political and ideological.

David


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