Disruptive Proactivity

The Good News is never as good as it appears, and the bad news never as bad.

The Tom Loosemore, Martha Lane Fox et al prototype proof of concept of what a single Government website could look like, became publicly visible this evening.

This is not a metaphor for alphagov:

This is sort of a position of where people think alphagov is today:


The accurate bit is the big political teeth, innaccurate is the ocean going icebreaker.

What #alphagov is at the moment, is something much less grand. It’s not in the ocean, it’s in a canal; and is the rough equivalent of this:
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This book is about wikileaks, in the same way EastEnders is about the East End of London, or Friends was about New York. It’s mostly about transparency, online activism, and actually achieving a better democracy. Sometimes the best way is to start by knocking hard on the front door, but sometimes you need wikileaks going commando through an upstairs window.
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