Post in FW: Ideal Government and the Tom Steinberg review...

2007 Apr 25 11:09 UTC

Ref the review Tom Steinberg is doing for the PM's strategy unit, I did
an Ideal Gov post and Ella suggested I fwd it to this list.

See

http://www.idealgovernment.com/index.php/blog/terms_of_ref_for_the_tom_s
teinberg_review/

It's a very important opportunity. No-one is better able than Tom to do
this, and some of the "Ideal Gov" themes are very pertinent to his work.

I don't expect Tom to take our wildest thoughts and present them as
orthodoxy.
But unless we say what we really think and ask for what we really want
then any "third way" or tactful synthesis will end up indistinguishable
from the status quo, in the grand "continuity and change" tradition of
so much government policy inertia (there actually was a white paper
about civil service reform called exactly that. Nothing happened).

I've set up a new "Tom Steinberg review" category. Please see

http://www.idealgovernment.com/index.php/blog/me_tom_and_the_kam_fuk_non
_declaration/

Very glad of any pieces or comments, especially on

- what does Uncle Buck's notion of "make government navigable" mean in
practical terms?
- is the key data structures, APIs, RSS, and web sites that are W3C
conformant?
- is there a role for the Creative Commons licence in government? What?
- is radical pre-emptive FoI feasible (ie making available via the web
everything which is suscetible to FoI) What would it involve, or cost?

Glad of any replies, comments and cros postings to Ideal Gov.

William

PS As ever if you dont want to get these please just email me and say
so.