Regional Chats-Stage two!

[Chameliya]

A pro for Chatzy is that it can be used on mobile.

[Kanoria]

I will add, thanks Jas.

[Kanoria]

Sorry for the delay, been rather busy with health matters. Following a unanimous vote in favor of chatrooms, there should be a fifth trial, if there is a third chatroom anyone would like to trial, please post here.

Otherwise, I will open a poll tomorrow to chose between Chatzy and Kato. At that point we can begin drafting the relevant legislation (that shouldn't take long), and hopefully pass it by the time that ministers are in post.

[Kanoria]

With no responses given, the new poll has been posted, we can begin drafting today if people would like.

[Kanoria]

I am thinking four sections in a motion, 1)Chats 2)Debates 3)Schedules 4)organisation. That would make it M9-Regional Communications Reform or something alike. I would like to officially include a reference to the media (or civil-society) co-operating with the delegate to organize it, however, as the independent media has yet to be officially created (or recreated), that would be hard to do. As this would be a motion, none of it would be binding, as it is basically us saying we wish to have regional chats and debates.I will post my first draft when I have written it. If there is anything else we would like to include, or any solutions to my problem there, please post in this thread.

[Kanoria]

I have a first draft... It isn't finished yet, I don't think, I will present it tonight at the chats after discussion with the delegate and one or two other members.

[Kanoria]

I will leave the current draft motion here for a couple of days, if anyone thinks of anything that needs to be added in or changed, please post it here.

Civil Communications Motion
Objectives: The citizens of the Social Liberal Union consider that we have a strong government that is not matched by an equally strong civil society. The considered view of the region is that this imbalance requires an urgent answer. To this end, the citizenry seeks to establish an independent media and to formalize and reform the regional 'chat' style communications. Section 1: An independent media should be established within the region that is not considered to be a part of regional government. A convention should be held to organize this.
Clause 1: The media shall be considered an Intra-regional organization as recognized under article 2, section 2 of the regional constitution.
Clause 2: Unless a strong public interest may be sighted, the regional media shall remain non-intrusive in the affairs of individuals, states, and government. Further to this, the media shall not pursue lines of questioning that are considered intrusive unless there is a strong public interest reason to do so once they have received a request not to.
Clause 3: Matters that do not breach the constitution or laws of the region, but that may be considered less than proper conduct for the press may be challenged publicly by any member state.
Site 1: The minister with responsibility for matters of communication shall have the right of oversight on this matter, however if any member of the citizenry or media challenges a decision, then the opinion of the region should be sought.

Section 2: Following the highly successful format created by our esteemed former delegate Avaerilon, the region believes that 'chats' should be extended.
Clause 1: The new chat service should be accessible at all times (subject to reasonable limits, ie. server downtime etc).
Clause 2: The responsibility for the organization and implementation of chats (including scheduled chats, debates and keynote talks) should be shared between the media and the delegate.
Site 1: The schedule for chats should be decided on in advance according to the stated availability of member states, with particular reference to those state s that have a direct interest or involvement in the subject of the chat (if it has one).
Site 2: The region considers that chats are of sufficient note that the schedule for a given week should be displayed in the World Factbook Entry.
Site 3: The types of chat activity should be defined as: 1) Scheduled Chat - A Social Coming together of the region at a scheduled time. 2) Debate - candidates or bill proposers voluntarily answering questions from the region. 3) Keynote Talks - A speaker providing information or opinion before answering questions. 4)Official Questions (Including Fireside Chats) - Questions left for public answer to be answered by a minister, the delegate, or other official by the public or media. 5) Interviews - An organization asking an individual questions for the purposes of that organization. 6) Emergency Chat - This is to deal with any emergency matter and can contain any states. 7) Private Group Chats - Chats that are organized by groups of citizens for either organizational or non-official purposes. 8) Open Chat - This is a running chat for any purpose.

Section 3: The region formally requests that candidates, where possible, attend debates, and if they are not able to then that they respond to questions as soon as possible thereafter. And further, where possible ministers and officials answer questions left for them.


* With these intentions, this bill is officially submitted to the Parliament of the Social Liberal Union for discussion, approval and passage into an Motion of the Social Liberal Union.