Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
Horst
Like me I see you like the stick approach. A few weeks ago when I dared
mention the stick approach on this forum, some user immediately jumped on
me. Hopefully now that you prefer the stick approach, I might be forgiven.
Cedric
Cedric,
Horst is half-right. Sometimes things have to be secret to prevent
taxpayers being taken for a ride, but using secrecy as an excuse to
avoid proper scrutiny is just increasingly common cowardice in Canberra.
And elsewhere.
The stick needs to be inserted in the relevant backs, to reinforce the
said official in providing 'frank and fearless' advice to those above.
Greg
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On Behalf Of Horst Herb
Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2007 9:46 PM
To: General Practice Computing Group Talk
Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] special report to Dr Frank
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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