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Fri 02 Feb 2010US public rightly sceptical of Obama's suggestion box
WIRED:The US government is asking citizens what data it should make available – but it should be left to independent bodies to decide, writes DANNY O'BRIEN
GENERALLY SPEAKING, government bureaucrats aren’t particularly motivated to provide data on their actions to the outside world – especially not in a form that computers in general, and the internet in particular, can understand. Most prefer to keep their data, as the immortal Douglas Adams had it, “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’ ”.
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