Absolutely agree. It should be a precondition of any public tender or
discussion process that *everything* will be available on the public
record.
The TGA suppressed the report on NSAIDS because of "commercial in
confidence" safety data!! This is clearly totally unacceptable.
In practice no one looks at most of this stuff anyway. I suspect it is
there more to protect the bureaucrats than commerecial interests from
scrutiny.
R
Horst Herb wrote:
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:27, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
we got the electronic messaging onto the agenda for yesterday's meeting of
BCSP-PAG at the DoHA.
i am bound by the usual secrecy provisions.
One way out of Australia's health IT misery would be devising a little daemon
with a bamboo cane that immediately materializes and heartily smacks the
wrists of any public servant using or applying the word "secrecy".
There is absolutely no place for secrecy in tax funded projects and
undertakings -all this "commercial in confidence" nonsense in *public*
projects has invariably led to grief in the past (just look at that Sydney
tunnel dung pile) and will invariably lead to more grief in the future.
There is a single purpose in secrecy in such context - stifling or suppressing
competition and critique. I doubt this is in the interest of the funding
entity, the long suffering tax payer.
Intelligent people like you Liz should not cooperate in such heresy against
common sense. Secrecy is the very anathema of messaging after all!
Horst
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