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14 Jan 2007

“Whitehall plan for huge database” - BBC

The Beeb reckons there’s to be a mother-of-all-databases announcement tomorrow

A giant database of people’s personal details could be created at Whitehall under government plans which ministers say will help improve public services.

What’s more, the the piece suggests, there will be an element of co-design as they decide how to go down this route.

However, the government wants to involve the public in deciding how to balance individual privacy against possible improvements in customer care in the public sector.

Five citizens’ panels of 100 people are being recruited by the polling organisation Ipsos Mori.

In a process known as “deliberative democracy”, the panels will be briefed on the pros and cons of different approaches to public services and then invited to make their decision.

Their views, say ministers, will then feed into government policy.

Among the issues the panels will consider are: the role of the citizen and state; rights and responsibilities; and customer care within public services including the idea of data-sharing.

Is this is first encouraging step towards a true co-governance process? Or merely chucking some money at Mori for a crap consultation which serves an authoritarian and introspective leadership as a figleaf when they’ve decided what they to do anyway thanks to their divinely inspired leader?  This could go either way so we should observe dispassionately, with a fair and critical mind. But it looks like the generation-long war the PM calls for may be accompanied by a war on those of us at home who see this differently. 

• Posted by William Heath on 14/01/07 at 9:49am
• Categories · "What do we want?" · Design: Co-creation · Foundation of Trust · Data nitwittery
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