Is it worth funding ICELE, asks Coleman
From:
Mick
Date:
Apr 06 18:43 UTC
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As a worker in a local authority I don't believe its tough working with
most of us!
I do believe that if we are expected to use products they need to be of
reasonable quality, technically stable and affordable.
My experience of the ICELE products was that they didn't fit the first
two.
Another factor is that they need to be available and despite knowing of
its existance I've never found them easily available...
This applied to a lot of the e-government initiatives - they came along
too late and didn't offer anything people wanted at that late stage.
Mick
-----Original Message-----
From: David Wilcox [mailto:davidwilcox@mac.com]
Sent: 06 April 2008 18:07
To: <email obscured>
Subject: Re: [UKIE-EDem] Is it worth funding ICELE, asks Coleman
Hi Mary
I'm sure it is tough working with local authorities ... but I'm still
puzzled by why ICELE has (so far as I can see) no interactive online
presence, and failed to engage with the debate on the Bristol blog,
yet local politicians like yourself are great bloggers.
Can't citizens expect the e-democracy institutions they are funding to
emulate the best not the worst practice ... especially if they are
meant to be a 'centre of excellence'?
Daviud
On 5 Apr 2008, at 16:14, Mary Reid wrote:
> One thing that ICELE has been tasked with is working with local
> authorities
> through the regions to encourage them to use edemocracy tools. The
> work it
> has done in the background with council officers and elected members
> has
> probably been invisible to the general population except, of course,
> in the
> gradual use of tools.
>
> I think some of you would be surprised at where we have to start
> from - we
> are still having to persuade some (usually older) councillors that
> making
> their email address public might be a good move! It's a very
> different world
> out there!
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