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Hamza Ben Maaoui's avatar

you are totally right , I want to talk about the influence that the social media platforms like facebook and twitter have nowadays and how they can affect the opinions of people. The presidential elections of Tunisia back in 2019 prove it , a former law professor became the president of the country without any heavy campaign like other candidates who had by far more ressources to make a big campaign and also support from certain media outlets but the law professor succeeded because he was supported essentially by youth who made several facebook groups and pages where they talk that we must support him, it was a blow to the political establishment in Tunisia. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50087240 you can have an idea through this article.

Furthermore , this president Tomas stopped the parliament since July 25 because there are many problems and Tunisia is facing political and economic crises , I cannot go much in detail here , he says since many years that he has a view of governance that you are describing , he wants everyone to participate at the local level in his region in order to contribute to policy making but many are criticising him and his idea and I was among them but this article changed my opinion a little bit , I saw it as difficult to apply in reality but it can be possible in th future.

The president launched in the beginning of this year an online consultation where every citizen can contribute by answering questions and giving his view about the issues facing Tunisia and how we have to tackle them https://www.e-istichara.tn/home this is the website and now we have a referendum in July in order to accept the change of the constitution or not and he said that all the remarks from the platform will be taken into account in the new constitution and the economic reforms program , this is its website https://www.e-istichara.tn/home sorry for being long but your project reminded me of the views of the president that's why I wanted to explain , I'm still a lit bit skeptikal about how it can be applied on the ground but it will happen ..

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Linda f's avatar

I guess this story is what you are talking about:

A soap factory had a problem. They sometimes shipped empty boxes without the bar inside. This challenged their perceived quality with the buyers and distributors. Understanding how important these relationships were, the CEO of the company assembled his top people.

Six months and $8 million later, they had a fantastic solution - on time, on budget, and high quality. Everyone in the project was pleased.

They solved the problem by using a special scale that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a soap box weighed less than it should. The line would stop, someone would walk over, remove the defective box, and then press another button to re-start the line. As a result of the new package monitoring process, no empty boxes were being shipped out of the factory.

A while later, the CEO decides to look at the first week report. Since the scales were put in place, no empty boxes had been shipped out of the factory. Each day about a dozen defective boxes were being removed, which was consistent with the projections. There were almost zero customer complaints and they were gaining market share. The CEO felt the $8 million was well spent.

However, the number of defective boxes picked up by the scales dropped to zero after three weeks. He filed a bug against it and after some investigation, the engineers came back saying the report was actually correct. The scales really weren't picking up any defects because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.

Puzzled, the CEO traveled down to the factory, viewed the part of the line where the precision scale was installed, and observed just ahead of the new $8 million dollar solution sat a $20 desk fan blowing the empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. He asked the line supervisor what that was about.

"Oh, that," the supervisor replied, "Bert, the kid from maintenance, put it there because he was tired of walking over, removing the box and re-starting the line every time the bell rang."

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