Conall McDevitt has an interesting post up about CEO reputations: “Communicating frequently with their employees. Certainly with their customers too, but not to forget their employees. At a time of uncertainty employees are hungry for information. CEOs need to take responsibility. Apologize if they are wrong. If they don’t know the answer, say they don’t [...]
Posts under ‘Transparency’
Whiter than white?
Do we really want politicians to be public paragons of virtue? A good deal of what I read tends to work on the assumption that we do. Take this, for example: “As technology evolves, the same public information laws create novel and in some cases previously unimaginable levels of transparency. In many cases, particularly those [...]
Digital engagement, transparency and power
Kevin Harris has a long but worth-reading post over on the New Start magazine’s blog.
Are interactive media experts really improving the quality of democracy?
OK, in recent posts, I’ve moaned about the demands for political transparency that are being fuelled by new interactive media applications. Let me try and put this into some perspective: In my opening ‘defending political parties‘ post, I acknowledged that there are a few early knockout punches that could be delivered to the argument that [...]
Counterproductive demands for transparency?
About a year ago, I heard snippets of a radio programme that really stuck with me. I didn’t make a note of the name of the programme at the time (I was driving), and it has taken me best part of the last year plugging away at the few contacts I have in the BEEB’s [...]
Transparency camp
The lastest in the near-franchise that is BarCamp – TransparencyCamp (US). (No rush to book by the way. The Washington DC venue may be a bit of a big ask, and the fact that it happened over a week ago may also make it awkward for you to attend). But it’s an interesting idea nevertheless. This [...]
Pushing policy instead of politics – and listening to the conversation.
This US post is calling for the data that agencies use to be as available as their conclusions. “Mindy Finn noted that politicians (typically leery of too much openness) can benefit from transparency in a self-protective “flood the zone” way — since people are coming to expect information about public figures to be available online, [...]
Guidelines confetti – a few observations
I’d been planning to do this blog for years, but the thing that finally nudged me to get on with it was this story (my first post) about how an MP’s online allowance was docked by the Parliamentary authorities because he used it in the way that you would expect politicians to use such an [...]
Crowdsourcing policy
The FT has picked up on a couple of social media sites that are intended to bring ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to bear upon the new President’s policymaking. Both Fix This Barack and Whitehouse 2 aim to set priorities for the incoming President. Obama’s team appear to be taking steps to do this themselves by [...]
