Failure to engage
Last week I wrote this piece for Liberal Conspiracy about how government websites aren’t exactly built to facilitate the new era of positive political engagement with the public we’re told our masters want.
Specifically, I highlighted Lord Goldsmith’s citizenship review, it’s call for the views of the public, and how if you don’t have the resources to print the review’s PDF pamphlets from the website, you are asked to contact the review team.
So, I did. On November 6. I asked how I obtain a hard copy of the pamphlet ‘The Future of Citizenship Ceremonies‘.
Still no reply a week later.
(Cross-posted at Liberal Conspiracy)
Posted on November 14th, 2007 at 10:47 am
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an academic friend of mine recently came up with something about instead of freedom OF information bill it is rather a freedom WITH information bill
If you write to most government departments for figures on something, you generally get a doc or sheet in the very latest version of Word or Excel, which my old Office 97 can’t read, so starting the search for a converter.
Particularly ironic when the report’s on social exclusion, or why the poor aren’t taking advantage of new technology.