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Tories try to delete the past.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ws-story-website-attempt-rewrite-history.html

Very Ministry of Truth.

"You have begun the process of democratising the world's information," Cameron told the Google Zeitgeist Europe Conference in 2006. "Because by making more information available to more people, you are giving them more power." That speech has been removed from the Tory party website and the archive. But users can find it on the Guardian website.
"It's clear to me that political leaders will have to learn to let go," Cameron told Google a year later, in another removed speech. "Let go of the information that we have guarded so jealously."
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What like the NHS risk register Dave?
 

Apart from a few moronic wasters, I doubt anybody actually bothered to read archived speeches on their website. All they've done is draw attention to them. Idiots.
 

Bruce Wayne said:
Thankfully the actual government themselves are doing more to be open and transparent. Both here and in America there is some good stuff happening in the open government movement.

http://data.gov.uk/ is the UK version, with a nice piece in todays Guardian on the potential

http://www.theguardian.com/global-d...network/2013/nov/13/open-government-best-bits
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No they are not. They defied two legal orders from the Information Commissioner to release the NHS Risk register.
 
*shrug* I'm not saying they're perfect, merely that there is probably greater access to state information and data now than there has ever been. I'm not sure this is a party political thing, but more the way the civil service seem to be taking things, and it's certainly to be encouraged as it focuses less on who does something and more on the outcome that needs to be achieved.

I mean if you wanted to score political points you would no doubt argue that the NSA, and by virtue Obama, have been shockingly cavalier with civil liberties with their tapping activities, and you'd be right, but there has also been some super work done by the likes of Beth Noveck to open up government there. That some states are dipping their toes in the waters of participatory budgeting is very exciting.

That she's now working for the UK government is quite the scoop.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
*shrug* I'm not saying they're perfect, merely that there is probably greater access to state information and data now than there has ever been. I'm not sure this is a party political thing, but more the way the civil service seem to be taking things, and it's certainly to be encouraged as it focuses less on who does something and more on the outcome that needs to be achieved.

I mean if you wanted to score political points you would no doubt argue that the NSA, and by virtue Obama, have been shockingly cavalier with civil liberties with their tapping activities, and you'd be right, but there has also been some super work done by the likes of Beth Noveck.

That she's now working for the UK government is quite the scoop.
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Fair points, but you cant pick and choose when to be transparent with information or the whole thing is pointless
 

Left school in '84, amongst many other great things. Although with hindsight I maybe shouldn't have left school, nobody pushed me to stay though despite sitting all GCE O'Levels, no career guidance whatsoever, "Leaving ? Ok."
 
Bruce Wayne said:
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*shrug* ?

The Tory Government put itself above the law in order to cover up the implications of their non-mandated changes to the NHS - they knew it would prevent them from privatising the NHS and so they ignored the orders to reveal the information. Two disgusting acts in and of themselves.

*shrug* indeed.
 

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