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Government should be the wholesaler not the retailer of information and services

Sat, 06/21/2008 - 09:42 — Simon Berry

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I am very grateful to all those who contributed to the web24gov workshop at CLG on Thursday (19/6/08) especially those who did so on a purely voluntary basis - I owe you one!

The workshop brought together the cognisenti in the application of new technologies (aka Web 2.0) keen to learn about the government's Community Empowerment strategies and civil servants keen to know more about new technologies. And there were one or two people who usefully straddled both camps. The snappy 2-hour session was delivered in perfect pitch by David Wilcox.

A more detailed report of the outcomes will follow but I just wanted to draw attention to one remark that struck a real chord with me.

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