On 14 Jan , at 15:37:43, Sam Smith wrote: > > On 14 Jan 2011, at 12:36, Alexander Harrowell wrote: >> The Cabinet Office is a perfectly good place for it. Its core responsibility >> is the machinery of government and the civil service. Where it is now is >> right with the people responsible for admin workflow. > > Agreed - but that wasn't the point I was making. My question was how far up > the agenda it should be (considered objectively). > >> This new thing looks like privatization. Oppose. Can always accept later! > > this thing *is* a substantive change from something that's quite bad. > > What it changes into, is currently open, and one option is something that > looks like privatisation. > > If you/we want something different, then we need to make a case for that > being the best option which is far stronger than "looks like privatization. > Oppose" >
The best option is the one where all published government data is automatically, by law, put into the public domain (as I believe, is the case in the US). This is a retrograde step as far as I can tell. > > > > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/stefan%40whitelabel.org -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +27 82 0431230 (SA) * +254 710 103500 (KE) PLS UPDATE* smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */ _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
