Just to emphasise that this blog is broad ranging, whilst focused upon e-government, I believe the recent news about politicians misquoting statistics is preventable in some instances by steering away from quantitative performance indicators!
Importantly as this story states: “only one in five people think figures are compiled without political interference”. So with an 80% failure rate, lets not bother and gain some trust first!
The blogger is Mick Phythian, a Research Associate at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. and former ICT Manager at Ryedale District Council in North Yorkshire, England. He was also a founder member of the Local CIO Council and regional Chair of Socitm.
Any opinions expressed on this weblog are purely those of the author.
He is not the Great Emancipator! The Great Emancipator was President Abraham Lincoln. The blog is so-called because some people perceive e-government, transformational government or, heaven forbid, government to be the emancipator of us all...
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