OK, Tony - how do you propose to do this. It is difficult enough within
one's own organisation. What does "everything" mean?
Really I am asking what in practice "everything" means?
Given that different departments in a large organisation are in charge of
their own organisation how do you propose enforcing this? And individuals
within the departments ditto.
How do you make sure that the information is uptodate?
Are we talking about every piece of work that everyone in an organisation
produces. Just the final version?
Contents management etc should improve the working of the organisation so
that there is a record of where everything is - but I would contend that
what you are suggesting - and I am not quite sure what you are - would mean
that organisations would spend more time publishing than carrying on the
work of the organisation.
I would suggest that there is a balance - but that balance must be decided
by each organisation - fitness for purpose comes to mind.
Nick Landau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Bowden" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Anonymity when making FOI requests of your
own organisation
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Nick Landau wrote:
>> It becomes apparent that publishing everything would be of as little
>> benefit as publishing nothing, other than to pressure groups who would
>> know
>> how to find their way through the material.
>
> I disagree. Publishing everything is clearly of more benefit than
> publishing nothing because at least the information is available. The
> people who can't understand it are no worse off, but the people who can
> are obviously in a better position.
>
>> I have developed the view that it is much more important that there be a
>> good publication scheme/hierarchical system/contents management system
>> (call it what you like) and that there be a good intro to the material -
>
> This might make more sense if people actually navigated to information,
> but
> we live in the Google age. People go directly to the information they
> seek because that's where the search engine takes them.
>
>> because these things should not be for academics but for everyone - and
>> if
>> they cannot make use of the material or don't know what material means or
>> who to ask, the right is meaningless.
>
> A good introduction is clearly better than no introduction, but I'd
> rather have the information available and need to do some more digging
> to understand it, than not have the information available at all.
>
> Tony
>
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