Inconvenient Questions – Digital Marketing Intern

IQ ("Inconvenient Questions") is a Singapore based sociopolitical site which launched in end-January 2015.  

 

Led by former TV current affairs anchor and former Nominated Member of Parliament, Viswa Sadasivan, IQ is a site for Singaporeans and PRs to raise burning issues and ask inconvenient questions.  If you are someone who can't see the logic of a policy/programme, sees a recurring problem not addressed, or who's frustrated with pat answers repeated – you have an inconvenient question.  It could be about public policy, politics, societal issues, arts and culture, education or the environment.  Our aim is not only to serve as a platform for the airing of these questions, but for some of them to gain traction (through robust discussion and a dynamic up voting process by netizens). Once a week (but starting on a fortnightly basis), the IQ team will pick a top voted inconvenient question for a video recorded interview/panel debate with a key person accountable for the issue, be it a minister, CEO of a Statutory Board, or head of an NGO or company.  Viswa Sadasivan will host this debate.

 

IQ hopes to be a credible interlocutor – trusted enough by the people, the government and key stakeholders – to promote an air of robust engagement that's not excessively adversarial.  We aspire to be a site where questions are asked honestly and are answered by those accountable, directly.  This is not easy to achieve, but we want to believe it can be achieved, in time and with patience and determination.  IQ aspires to become more than an online site – we want it to become a 'movement' to create a more accountable yet less adversarial culture in public discourse.