Public Sector Transparency Board – papers from the meeting held on 24 June 2010
Posted on 06/07/2010 3 comments
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As you will be aware from our blog post on 25 June, the Transparency Board met for the first time on the 24 June 2010. Please find attached the following from this meeting:
- The agenda
- Papers
- Terms of Reference
- Letter from Professor Nigel Shadbolt
- The minutes
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Commenting on, and Linking to, PSTB papers
Copies of all the papers can be found in format that allows commenting on, linking to, and embedding of content at the individual paragraph level at:
WriteToReply: The Public Sector Transparency Board
For a brief discussion of how this sort of approach might open up the workings of the Board even further, see:
Using WriteToReply to Publish Committee Papers. Is an Active Role for WTR in Meetings Also Possible?
Good place to start
An honorable start that I think is likely to be well supported by the web community within the Civil Service.
My question would be how to ensure that the principle of freeing data is embedded across other professions within the service, such as statisticians?
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Fantastic stuff - got issue though with just getting data out and fixing as we go along: fine for a lot of things, but not a base for commercial services (re-users need to commit to SLAs, require reliability and regular updates etc).
Is there room here for bureau services where PSI can be transformed/cleaned/and returned to the PSI body with enhanced metadata? Or even invoke the wisdom of the crowd to improve it?
DFI and Landmark do this for their respective PSB partners.