General Engagement Agenda, June 2021 Term

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Salutations,

The following is an overview of items that Ministry of Engagement will specifically seek to accomplish in this term. My objectives will primarily focus on recruitment strategies and outreach, allowing the Coalition to develop a more diverse government composition, with the easiest possible access for volunteer opportunities. At the same time, we will be keen to not let perfectionism delay progress. In this regard, a number of objectives for this term are the same as the objectives for the previous term. It is my intention that this ministry shall bring to publication our long-lingering projects in a sound and dignified quality, while saving more advanced features for enhancements at a later date.

The following priorities are generally (but not necessarily) arranged by expectations of when they will be completed:

Engagement Self-Assessment

As a part of the transition from the previous ministration to the current one, it is worth a brief moment spent assessing the present staff conditions and what they believe their strengths and challenges are within the ministry. In this regard, we will be releasing a feedback form to collect optionally anonymous opinions from Ministry of Engagement staff. This will be in a format which is conscientious to be free of influence or expectations. Responses may have key insights for structural improvements in our department.


Unified Ministry Application System

As main objective from my campaign, we will be following through on working with other cabinet members to reach an agreement on the implementation of a single, unified ministry application scheme. The unified application should encompass all of its component ministries' needs, be accessible to candidates, and have an output that is highly visible to ministry workers (particularly in the Ministry of Engagement). Our primary goal is to see applicants processed with considerably greater expedience, and with applications no longer going unseen entirely.

Considerable progress has already been made towards constructing a theoretical forum-based solution. Consequently, we will primarily focus on content and integration talks in order to see this system finally realised. As the unified application system launches, it should ideally be paired with a dispatch, accessible via the regional World Factbook Entry, which advertises the government's ministries and what they do in order to entice prospective volunteers.


Launch of the Dispatch Project

Work is nearing completion on the development of a more robust and updated series of dispatches and player guides. Thanks to @USoVietnam's colossal work in creating a system to safely and conveniently have vast volumes of dispatches updated with relatively little work, the Dispatch Rennovation project will likely transition to more of a Dispatch Maintenance endeavour which keeps us up to speed. Launch of this project is anticipated next month.



South Pacific Association for Cards Exchange (SPACE)

Our plan for the South Pacific's own card program has been ambitious and complex, possibly overly so. As this program has been in development since mid-October of 2020, the time has certainly come to release a smaller scale version of the project in order to get citizens interested in cards as an idea, as well as to help support the region's interactivity. I will be looking to simplify a number of our plan's more complicated schemes in order launch SPACE (or if you prefer, launch into SPACE).

More updates on what exactly this entails in the future, but at this time, launch is anticipated within the next two months.


Spotlight Weekends

Players' return to school present many opportunities for outreach, and it's important that the South Pacific be able to capitalise on this upcoming traffic. Engagement will work with other areas of government to develop educational and marketing materials on just what makes these areas a fun place to be in, and why new players should be a part of that experience. Therefore, following the launch of SPACE, we'll dedicate ourselves to putting together Spotlight Weekends, highlighting different areas of government, how they work, and how new players might be able to imagine themselves in those roles.

With the application process more streamlined, and our various government departments looking more approachable than ever, may we be able to reduce the average player's trepidation to getting involved.