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Harrow to make all data public in FOI revolution

As someone who deals with FOI day in day out in a large local authority this entirely misses the point. Most FOI requests, and all of those that take time are not about 'data'. They are about decsion making, internal communications, why is the council closing this library, who decided it was a good idea to use recycled paper that jams photocopiers, what were the benefits to the Council of Cllr Jones trip to Latvia. Increaed publishing of data will not dent those enquiries and will probably cause more enquiries about the data. We too have seen a 100% increase in 12 months and almost all of that was BECAUSE OF the transparency agenda.

8-Feb-2011

5:23 pm