For those of you who missed it, the first Q&A via the Presidents twitter account was held on Wednesday. Even though the questions were answered through the official @PresRajapaksa account, it was actually the Secretary to the President, Mr Lalith Weeratunga who took up the questions.
The questions were submitted through the #AskLW hashtag in all three languages, and Mr. Weeratunga started right on schedule. Each question was retweeted and then answered, so that both questions and answers are visible in an orderly manner. Around 20 questions were answered in topics from political, to personal to paypal.
Even though there were questions unanswered (Understandably due to the busy schedule of Mr. Lalith Weeratunga), this is a good start to social media engagement from the government. And hopefully will be the first of many more such Q&As. Also in a subsequent release, Mr Weeratunga has stated that more answers would be provided in the coming days via twitter.
You can check out the Q&A on twitter below. And to check on all the questions, just search for #Asklw.
Lw has not answered many good questions in to details. I don’t think Twitter sentence limit is not good enough to discuss problems that we Sri Lanka’s have!
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