Comments on: The “Reinventer” reinvents http://idealgovernment.com/2005/12/the_reinventer_reinvents/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Wed, 14 May 2014 08:35:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: sherpa http://idealgovernment.com/2005/12/the_reinventer_reinvents/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:44:51 +0000 http://the_reinventer_reinvents#comment-608 But also worth noting that there was a challenge to how useful this technique was likely to be from Laurence Millar (http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le21/le34/nobel/2005/popups/millar.html) of New Zealand, who argued that the NZ government (which has gone further in this direction than almost any other) was finding it very hard to move beyond improving outputs (in effect, greater efficiency of existing approaches) to improving outcomes, not least because there often wasn’t an easy link between the intended policy outcome and the inputs of an individual public agency.

]]> By: Richard S http://idealgovernment.com/2005/12/the_reinventer_reinvents/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:40:50 +0000 http://the_reinventer_reinvents#comment-607 That’s odd, I wonder why this was not reported by the UK’s mainstream media? Could it be that Murdoch-Blair does not agree?

WIBBI: How about the BBC making space at “prime time” for reasoned discussions about issues and choices?

(On Freeview, I now get four BBC TV channels, more than ten BBC radio channels, but all are full mostly of trivia, commercial sport and imported rubbish. Similarly, I get four ITV channels, four Channel4 type channels and countless commercial TV & radio channels: Mostly, I switch OFF and read a book!)

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