radical IT approach to political situation

Randomly happened to chance across what seems to be a radically alternative approach to the political situation. Here is an excerpt from a blog:

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The root of all evil in post-independence India has been, quite unequivocally, its politicians – ranging from downright illiterate to openly criminal (when not octagenarian and senile). Now someone’s come up with an interesting way to sift the wheat from the chaff. He’s another IIT alumnus who dropped his ‘lucrative’ Silicon Valley career – Pallav Pandey.

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The politicians who are the primary policy makers, cannot become honest in a day or even a year. Keeping this in mind I think that these guys are working with a very practical approach (www.alchemists-india.com), they are helping the politicians improve their performance and not trying to make them “honest”. Once this idea gains acceptablility there will be a lot of change happening and that too when apparently the politicians are working to consolidate their careers… development of the country will be a very useful by-product!!

In fact, Pallav wrote to me that: “Typically a problem with NGOs giving feedback and creative inputs is that of taking the horse to water but not being able to make it drink.We have approached the problem differently, we charge the horse money for taking him to water and then he better drink. Its a matter of creating a model where the interests of the elected representatives are aligned with benefitting the society.”

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001322.html

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Check out the Problem and Solution given in the website…
http://www.alchemists-india.com

(I thought it was simply brilliant!)