Will Haitian's ever trust their govt, again? Can their govt demonstrate that it can be trusted? We see all types of public service announcements about washing your hands and keeping PAP clean so evidently someone is thinking about something. Nevertheless, on the ground, what we see is not encouraging. We need leders to step up and deliver. Make a visible display of control and effectiveness. Let's take downtown PaP. Have the warehouses down there were closed anyway. Street merchants, mechanics, and car washers have taken over more than half of the road way. There is not a parking meter in site. No trash collection system that doesn't require trash piling up in the streets before its picked up. Let's take a page from New York City and the Broken Windows Strategy Malcom Gladwell talks about in his book "The Tippin Point". Just govern down town. Clean it up. Make sure there is 24HR power. Easier said than done? Its 1 square mile. That's it. That's the how far it is from the National Palace to the water. If we can't control that...
Commented originally posted to "Can Haiti Get Beyond Politics as Usual?" on Haiti Rewired: http://ning.it/dttqsr
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