On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt <p...@goldshmidt.org> wrote:
> > Hi, > > We have elections on the horizon and a bunch of NGO members, from > Hamakor down, up, and sideways, on this list. And we often see - and > complained about - cluelessness in government IT, software, websites, > etc. > > So, it looks like the UK government is trying to do something that > sounds on the face of it, vaguely intelligent about IT projects, cf. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/02/cabinet_office_open_principles/ > > I am not trying to say this is going to be brilliant or workable or > not prone to subversion by "Sir Humphreys"[*], but given how gov.il is > always keen to look abroad to justify doing or not doing stuff, maybe > someone should point it out to some politicians looking for votes in > January? > > If ths generates any heated or prolonged discussions may I suggest > conducting them on the appropriate NGO lists and forums? I am not a > member of any, so it was easier for me to post here in the belief that > it is on topic. How to best influence the politicians, however, > probably isn't, unless someone hacks up a Linux-based AI to run the > country. > > [*] Some of the younger list members may need, e.g., > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister to understand who "Sir > Humphrey" was. The rest of us may well be reminded that the > fictional Minister whose efforts to reform things were so often > thwarted by Sir Humphrey was called Jim Hacker. > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org > > The people behind gov.il think that .doc is an open standard since after all it can be opened by every computer they know of. -- Ori Idan
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