Ministry
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Continue Doing
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Indicators of Progress
for the Ministry
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Impact on other
Government spendings
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Coordination Hubs
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Reacting to the past / present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Building of a joint masterplan
for the future. Haphazard
rather than joint planning must
lead to haphazard / accidental
outcomes. The reverse is also
true.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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National Land
Development
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) use of
land
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide land use
planning for today and
tomorrow (multi-land use
planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Reacting to the past / presen
CITIZENS:t
- Compensating lack of
emotional feelings or ties
(times families spend being
or doing things together) with
material or monetary gains.
This leads to the need for
holding on to lands or shows
an unwillingness to "let go" of
it so as to compensate for
deificiencies (inadequacies)
in other areas of our lives.
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Presenting possibilities (sharing
learnings from overseas)
without assuming the need for
significantly sized erections.
Start small.
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) WITH
EACH OTHER in creating the
pictures of the nation and not
one's village only.
- Seeing the uses of land “grow”
– the recyclability of lands
allows lands to be restored for
new and productive uses as
and when it happens. The
more this happens the more the
land allows itself to contribute to
the country’s GDP!
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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Building of public
housing
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Does not require
public sector
intervention
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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Building of public
offices
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Does not require
public sector
intervention
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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National Transport
System Development
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Roads Department
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) growth
of roads
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide land
use planning for
today and tomorrow
(multi-land use
planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
- Roads is the end rather than
they are the means to an
end. Different persons may
have different ends. These
become more meaningful
when the ends are more
clearly defined
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Presenting possibilities (sharing
learnings from overseas)
without assuming the need for
significantly sized erections.
Start small.
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) WITH
EACH OTHER in creating the
pictures of the nation and not
one's village only. Roads
Department to engage in
dialogue with the community to
members that matter on the
needs of designing roads for
their community.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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Road Transprot &
Safety
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) growth
of roads
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Self-management by
citizens
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning public transport
needs for the present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning of public transport
needs for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) in
creating the pictures of the
nation and not one's village
only.
CITIZENS:
- Seeing what one does directly
on the growth of the economy
(rather than lining one's pocket
/ personal economy) and vice-
versa.
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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Central Transport Office
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Capacity (finance, spare parts,
human resources) to meet
operation needs for the public
sector. A similar impact exists
for the private sector and the
citizens.
Availability of fleet of cars for
public officers from the central
transport pool.
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National Communication
System Development
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Telecommuncations
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) growth
of telecommunications
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide
planning for today
and tomorrow (multi-
land use planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
- Many citizens look for pre-
paid mobile plans (under the
assumption they would be
able to control their monthly
spending). This is great in
theory, but in many cases -
being a prepaid mobile user
can actually cost you much,
much more!
- The need to use mobile
phones to "keep secrets"
from another (rather than
open communications and
relationships. This counters
the vision of "Botswana
Connect" - it is true in part
but not in whole). We may
inadvertently see phones
used to break up more
families rather than being
used to build relations,
including eventually
businesses and the economy.
- "I make a call when I am able
to pay for it. When I don't
have the money, then I do
not call and I do not wished
to be charged for those
times, so I use pre-paid
phone calling cards. I can
expect whoever needs to call
me, would pay for the call.
Until then, I shall wait - all
networking depends on cash
availability to make phone
calls. This may inadvertently
see calls used for an
emergency and not to avert
the build-up to such an
emergency or individualistic
tendencies as individuals
begin to believe that they are
not able to rely on others as
one cannot afford to make
the calls needed to reach
them.
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Pre-paid services and
highlighting the eventual
costs for the users.
- When citizens begin to limit
calls till they are absolutely
essential, calls will not be
made and therefore, service
providers earning potential
begins to decline. This could
lead them into believing the
need to keep phone units
higher than it needs to be.)"
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
Start small.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) WITH
EACH OTHER in creating the
pictures of the nation and not
self or for one's village only.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Post-paid services and
highlighting the savings for
users.
- Needing for entrepreneurs to
watch their costs as much
working with revenues to make
margins a reality. These
margins can be passed on as
savings to customers
stimulating greater use of
telecommunication services.
- The cumulative effect of the
margins would make new
enterprises become more of a
reality,
- Need for telecommunication
service providers and
regulators to have dialogue
sessions with customers and
stakeholders alike so as to
appreciate the realities in the
use of telecommuncation
services in different persons'
lives.
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funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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funding of:
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Information
Technology
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) growth
of IT
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide
planning for today
and tomorrow (multi-
land use planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
- Perception that when we see
each other 'face-to-face' then
things would get done. Else
it would not.
- Needing to overcome the
fear of “losing my space” that
by chatting and connecting
Batswana would climb “over
the walls and fences” I have
erected to protect me and my
family from their needs and
demands (for attention, time
and money).
- Needing to control the
expansion of populations and
communities. To curb
tribalistic tendencies.
- "We are too poor or
computer illiterate to consider
investing in expensive IT
equipments.""It works too fast
for our taste.
- We prefer and trust better
when we can use our hands
to make or realize a service
or a product. Working with IT
means we are not able to see
how our hands helped to
shape (unlike crop
production, cattle farming or
mining) the product/service.
How then would we rate the
cost of our product?"
- "The more we rely on things
related to IT, the less our
children are willing to become
interested farming and
traditions that are rooted in
nature. Machines are an anti-
thesis to all things natural.
Should we shield our children
from such things then?"
- We can however rely on it to
help us extend yet another
"direct line of contact" to the
Government. But in other
aspects of our lives, it is not
relevant!
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Servicing the needs of the
community where IT may
make a difference to them
first before seeing the
community use IT for
eGovernment purposes or
the nation's need to expand
IT services. Serve the needs
of one family or community at
a time.
- This is the background from
which most of our local
professionals comes from.
Surely we could not trust
them with expensive IT
infrastructure, could we?
- We need to keep our prices
high in the eventuality of
needing to recover these
costs.
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterpla across this loopn.
Start small.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) WITH
EACH OTHER in creating the
pictures of the nation and not
one's village only.
CITIZENS:
- The longevity of the media is
fueled by individual's
willingness to learn and explore
unchartered waters, a quest for
knowledge and appreciating
that an iCT platform would
facilitate the above happening
by connecting the individual to
the network of people around
the world. This quest grows
over the lifetime of the
individual.
- Enjoying a level of quality of life
that appreciates an emotional
aspect of relations with another
that among other things include
experiencing joy by the
interaction and not perceived
for its physical (object / material
/ monetary) gain only.
- The more such joys are
experienced the greater
becomes the levels of trust
gained by individuals with each
other the more one becomes
willing to use IT as a media of
interaction (website, emails,
chats, etc.) leading to learning
from each other. The reverse
is also true.
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Work with citizens on their
needs and ideas for using IT
and not necessarily what "we
think works best for them".
- The less we understand what
matters in the ways the citizens
use IT and instead "push IT" in
the ways we prescribe them,
the harder they "push back"
(blaming firewalls,
complicatedness and the need
to rely on a third party to
navigate our ways through IT).
- Not assume "we know best"
professionals' perspective
- Engage citizens in uncovering,
appreciating and then dealing
with their fears hands-on
- As fears ebb away, engage in
building conversations on ways
IT may support the needs of the
citizens in various aspects of
their lives (in towns and villages)
- As their lives grow, and
recognize the ease of growth
due to IT, so would their affinity
and propensity towards
purchase of IT products (and in
turn support the growth of IT
infrastructure in the country).
The domino effect starts in the
villages and spills over into the
towns.
- Help citizens overcome their
fears with use and troube-
shooting of problems related to
IT.
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National Energy
Resources Development
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) use of
enery sources
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide use
planning for today and
tomorrow (multi-land use
planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Presenting possibilities (sharing
learnings from overseas)
without assuming the need for
significantly sized erections.
Start small.
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) WITH
EACH OTHER in creating the
pictures of the nation and not
one's village only.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
See inclining need for
funding of:
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National Waste
Management
Development
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) use of
waste resources
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide use
planning for today and
tomorrow (multi-land use
planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Planning for the present
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Presenting possibilities (sharing
learnings from overseas)
without assuming the need for
significantly sized erections.
Start small.
- Planning for the future (20
years). Building of a joint
masterplan across this loop.
- Co-involvement of the citizens
(not representatives) WITH
EACH OTHER in creating the
pictures of the nation and not
one's village only.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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See declining need for
funding of:
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funding of:
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National Private Sector
Development:
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funding of:
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funding of:
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funding of:
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Private Sector
Development
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funding of:
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funding of:
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funding of:
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Industry Development
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) growth
of industry
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide
planning for today
and tomorrow (multi-
land use planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Provision of subsidies, tax
cuts and holidays, bailouts.
CITIZENS:
- Expecting subsidies, bailouts,
securing tenders issued by
government
- Encouraging overtones of
the amounts of money we
have or what we do with it.
- Government handing out
money or grants or aids of
any kind or encouraging
citizens competing to clamour
for such dishouts (housing,
health, education, tenders,
etc.).
- Willingness to let go of the
tried and tested (cattle
rearing and crop farming)
and letting the child grow up
to face the world by
themselves without the rules
but clartiy of their visions of
serving the world rather than
fantasies of growing money
for self.
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- A key factor holding citizens
back from diversifying its
economy is the fear attached
to forms of economy or
revenue brought in by
sources other than farming,
in particular cattle farming.
Cattle farming is a dominant
family tradition in the
country. As such, the
families grow with intricate
sets of traditions woven
around cattle rearing in all
stages of one’s life: from birth
to death. These traditions
include instilling fear
associated to keeping cash
in hand (that “cash would slip
away” while the cattle does
not walk away – and
therefore one’s attitude
towards saving cash for
savings or for use in capital
investments eventually and
the requisite trust in financial
institutions and instruments)
and that cattle (and their
hides) can protect their
families from all adversities
while currency (paper) would
not do that. These traditions
are passed down in songs
and stories from one
generation to the next as part
of rites of passages.
- Watching water uses (up to
10:1) in brewery production
of alcoholic beverages (For
brewing, for rehydrating).
- Starting business with the
intention to wipe out another
business and does so by
starting (borrowing) big, he
or she is then not prepared
to bear the losses (financially
and emotionally, leading one
to consume more alcohold)
that come with such moves.
Be prepared then to remain
small.
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- Encourage stories of successful
business ventures by locals &
foreigners, where relevant (that
showed determination and
flexibility) that would draw and
inspire new areas of
diversification.
- A generation of persons
growing up without experiencing
the pain of poverty and who
then begins to question the
reality and is willing to take off-
the-beaten tracks to new areas
of diversification.
CITIZENS:
- Seeing the world as the market
and willing to serve the differing
needs of the world (the hearts
of the people) and not the self.
- That locals invest and grow all
factors of production in the
economy.
- Be willing to start small (and
humble) in the sector.
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Mindful of systemic
development of industries, i.e.
refer to example of
development of dairy cow
production, relationship of
cattle and crop production and
rainfall, etc.
- Focus on developing and
engaging citizens in the
development of raw materials
for use by secondary and
tertiary industries. It is
expensive in the short-run but
becomes cheaper in the long-
run. The lowered costs,
eventually passes off as
growing levels of margins for
industries.
- When natural materials, such
as water becomes a more
abundant resources (a by-
product of more intensive crop
production), utility costs (and
levies and taxes) in the country
will graudally decline. Costs of /
barriers to manufacturing
naturally falls away and the
sector becomes more
manageable and realistically
profitable. This allows efforts at
job creation to be sustainable
for businesses.
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funding of:
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Trade Development
PERSISTENT ISSUE:
- Generative
(continuous) growth
of trade
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide
planning for today
and tomorrow (multi-
land use planning)
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funding of:
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funding of:
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- Generative
(continuous) growth
of tourism
SYSTEMIC VISION:
Country-wide
planning for today
and tomorrow (multi-
land use planning)
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- MOFAIC/Aids donors: Play
down the need for donor in
international media (be more
discreet), locally and within
the continent. The continent
of Africa is a destination for
receiving aid / donor money
rather than tourist money;
the two share an inverse
relation. Yet, still, tourists
choose to go to destinations
that are not in need of aid, as
it pre-suggests destinations
are suited for holidaying and
relaxing (and not fighting for
a cause) and in the course
spends money there.
- The two needs share an
inverse relation – fighting a
lost battle; know your own
enemy - the self;
- MOE: Teachers playing up
the ‘Work hard else you will
also become poor one day’
line and the need to keep
drumming the lines in our
students. The citizens tend
to grow up to ‘take less time
for oneself/ leisure’ or
therefore the willingness to
travel within one’s own
country or in other countries
as tourists.
- MYSC: Culture is seen as
preserving one’s own at the
expense of others rather
than seeking a harmonious
co-existence. This limits the
individual’s willingness to
explore the unknown or the
‘bigger world out there’ and
therefore the capacity of
locals wanting to learn (and
therefore tour) about other
countries.
CITIZENS:
- Locals perceive that
travelling or touring internal
or overseas is a waste of
resources that otherwise may
be spent on needs (cattle
farming, food, warmth,
trappings) around the home /
family / community (weddings
and funerals).
- The perception that touring
and visiting sites of interest
for visual or sensory
enjoyment has little of no
place in a country of citizens
that worries about the
security of itself and their
loved ones. It is what the
"white" ones do and they
waste their time and money
in the process. Link the lack
of attention to such
perception and rates of
hypertension within the
country.
- We are different. The only
thing that matters to us is to
use the time we have to work
hard and then use the time
we have left (after travelling
long distances) to sort out
issues and concerns
(marriages, funerals, court
issues that require as many
hands in the family to be put
to work) of one's family
members.
- As a result locals stay
unaware that one's own
cattle-post mentality could
cast a blind-spot on the
tourist potentials of the
country (MAIZE vs MAZE
story).
- This often means locals do
not travel to places of
interests within the country
themselves. As such, the
citizens do not "see" the
potential it could offer as
places of interest in terms of
differences in culture /
practices / geography, etc.
- When locals do not know
their tourist destinations, the
pipe of word-of-mouth that
could reach to foreigners is
blocked / turned off.
- When locals do not travel
within their country as
tourists, they are less likely to
be travelling overseas as
tourists themselves.
- When the latter does not
happen, the 'pipe' of word-of-
mouth about the country that
could reach foreigners is
blocked / turned off. Instead
the country "pays money" to
broadcast and market itself,
what it's citizens could have
done it "for free".
- When locals don’t travel
overseas, then expecting an
international airport to grow
and be sustainable can
become increasingly harder.
When citizens demand better
airports, it should see the
citizens first sustaining the
airport themselves.
- When the focus is on the
bottom-line only, service
providers fail to see what
really feeds their bottom-line
= it is not the margins, it is
customers satisfaction (and
their word-of-mouths)!
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Drift away from "low volume,
high value" strategy, unless
the environmental issues
does call for it. Consider
instead opportunities for
locals to experience "low-
value, high volume" tourist
attractions that allows itself to
experience the diversity of
the country. Experience
"different cuts for different
people starting from within
the country". We would learn
over time to extend it to
beyond people within the
country (as our minds learn
to appreciate the fact that
others "do think differently
from me").
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ACTION BY:
GOVERNMENT:
- MYSC to consider developing
cultural programmes not only
for the preservation of but also
the development (nurturing) of
the finer or creative side of
individuals. Encourage
individuals to break away from
rather than holding onto the
past. This has the effect of
individuals seeking to learn
balance work with pleasure. It
also helps individuals wanting
to discover the gifts both of
within the country as well as
beyond the country.
- Seeing the diversification of
tourism beyond wildlife. Draw
people to its modernity and
diversity (culture, history,
traditions, etc.) could attract
significant numbers, potentially
the rest of the world. i.e. 5
billion!
- Increase factors that contribute
to perceptions that Botswana
can serve the world rather than
is in need of aids from the world.
CITIZENS:
PRIVATE SECTOR:
- Create opportunities for locals
to enjoy local / foreign
destinations as tourists rather
than harbour perceptions of
mysticism:
- Locals who are familiar with
the places of attraction /
leisure / fine arts pursuits
within the country appreciate
tourists;
- Locals share areas of
potential tourist interests.
These help to diversify
tourism;
- Locals who travel as
overseas tourists and share
news of the country to the
world;
- Work with sectors /
industries / norms that
promote or detract locals
from wanting to become a
tourist in the world / not just
the region.
- Investing in local attractions
becomes even more worthwhile
for foreigners
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