http://greatemancipator.com/2009/06/15/getting-overfocused-on-the-tools/ A discussion point on electronic government performance Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:34:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://greatemancipator.com/2009/06/15/getting-overfocused-on-the-tools/#comment-447 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:16:34 +0000 http://greatemancipator.com/?p=637#comment-447 I find this business of giving people “tools” so patronising. As you say, tools granted by gov aren’t going to be effective and anyway, people prefer to create their own. It is just another ruse to disempower communities, who I hope will continue to forge tools for themselves. They could teach gov a thing – luckily! CONsultation, as it is fondly called in our borough in Richmond upon Thames, is thoroughly discredited. People use it only to ensure they can at least state in the comments box what they really want to say, but aren’t given the option to do so!

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