Open AccessVanuatu: Accountability from the Subsistence Age to the Internet Age
Author(s) -
Marie-Noelle Ferrieux Patterson
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v16i2.1032
Subject(s) - accountability , subsistence agriculture , project commissioning , the internet , publishing , political science , information age , public administration , economic growth , geography , law , economics , archaeology , world wide web , computer science , agriculture
Commentary: Vanuatu governments are not used to being held accountable. They act like they do not owe any explanation to the public about what they are doing. Rather than taking the initiative, successive Vanuatu governments seem to address significant issues only if they are forced by sustained public pressure in the private media to do so.