by Tom | Nov 9, 2009 | Government, Science
Interesting thought on the The Nutt Sack Affair (part 493): part of the defence has been that science cannot help with policy, only provide evidence to policy makers. Hmm. The scientific method can see if policy is effective or not, whether types of policy are...
by Tom | Nov 3, 2009 | Government, Personal, Science
As #alanjohnsonnuttsack continues to rumble on, there is a deep question emerging: how do we present science effectively. If we hold to the fact that all current science could be wrong, we get Clive James and others telling us we are promoting hatred. If we try and...
by Tom | Oct 29, 2009 | Government, Reading
I hope that lots of legislators do this kind of thing. No-one can read all of the guff that is produced in an average government body, so I’m sure some bored civil servants must be doing it.
by Tom | Oct 19, 2009 | Business, Government
It seems that there are plenty of ways of getting individuals to look after common resources effectively. The ones that tend to work are generically described as polycentric governance, which translates into “well-defined boundaries, strong community tradition,...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2009 | Government, IT
A valuable reminder of what was going on in the e-Government era (and funny to see fishinglicence.co.uk there – I joined just after the service had been squashed). The summary is that we started well, but maybe without direction, and then lost our way a little...
by Tom | Oct 7, 2009 | Government, IT
The NIEM is a new undertaking in the US, predominantly for emergency situations. However, the general idea of a shared language and categorisation to support sharing between organisations is spot on and a larger version of what we are trying to do in the NHS.
