Are you looking at me?
at 12:47pm
on Thursday, 17th July 2003
A lot of people are getting hot under the collar about moves afoot in the US for 'total information awareness' but John Naughton (who will be speaking at a Demos event next week) points to a project taking place at MIT's Media lab that attempts to turn it on its head and create 'Government Information Awareness'
He goes on to say: "We could do the same for the UK. Imagine a site that would automatically collate information about MPs' financial interests, voting behaviour, Commons attendance, speeches, publications, campaign literature, friends, attentiveness to constituents etc and make it available on the web?"
Read the full piece here.
A lot of people are getting hot under the collar about moves afoot in the US for 'total information awareness' but John Naughton (who will be speaking at a Demos event next week) points to a project taking place at MIT's Media lab that attempts to turn it on its head and create 'Government Information Awareness'
He goes on to say: "We could do the same for the UK. Imagine a site that would automatically collate information about MPs' financial interests, voting behaviour, Commons attendance, speeches, publications, campaign literature, friends, attentiveness to constituents etc and make it available on the web?"
Read the full piece here.
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