Comments for Richard's Kingdom http://richardskingdom.net Privacy, security and politics in the digital era Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:44:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Lobbyists register – my consultation response by Richard King http://richardskingdom.net/lobbyists-register-my-consultation-response#comment-2832 Richard King Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:44:19 +0000 http://richardskingdom.net/?p=621#comment-2832 Can't argue with you there, and it could be automated easily with a few tweaks to any existing digital appointments system, vis: "So you want to meet with David Cameron? When? Where? For how long? Who are you? Whose views will you be representing? What do you want to discuss?" It'd be easy to publish this in a database, under a suitable license, which data hackers could then mine to their hearts' content. Can’t argue with you there, and it could be automated easily with a few tweaks to any existing digital appointments system, vis: “So you want to meet with David Cameron? When? Where? For how long? Who are you? Whose views will you be representing? What do you want to discuss?” It’d be easy to publish this in a database, under a suitable license, which data hackers could then mine to their hearts’ content.

]]> Comment on Lobbyists register – my consultation response by Gareth Simpson http://richardskingdom.net/lobbyists-register-my-consultation-response#comment-2830 Gareth Simpson Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:59:17 +0000 http://richardskingdom.net/?p=621#comment-2830 They're making this difficult, probably deliberately. All they really need to do is have a mandatory, public, machine readable log of the meetings that ministers and civil servants have with external companies, organizations and individuals, whether they self categorize as lobbyists or not. Enquiring minds will be able to data mine it for access levels, patterns etc. It's not the list of lobbyists that's really the question, it's the amount of access and also possibly the timing. They’re making this difficult, probably deliberately.

All they really need to do is have a mandatory, public, machine readable log of the meetings that ministers and civil servants have with external companies, organizations and individuals, whether they self categorize as lobbyists or not.

Enquiring minds will be able to data mine it for access levels, patterns etc. It’s not the list of lobbyists that’s really the question, it’s the amount of access and also possibly the timing.

]]> Comment on How to set up a local group by Richard King http://richardskingdom.net/how-to-set-up-a-local-group#comment-2818 Richard King Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:27:45 +0000 http://richardskingdom.net/?p=544#comment-2818 Hi Nishma - go right ahead! All the posts on this blog are (CC-BY) licensed. Hi Nishma – go right ahead! All the posts on this blog are (CC-BY) licensed.

]]> Comment on How to set up a local group by Nishma http://richardskingdom.net/how-to-set-up-a-local-group#comment-2817 Nishma Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:25:47 +0000 http://richardskingdom.net/?p=544#comment-2817 Hi Richard, Do you mind if we put this up on the ORG blog? Hi Richard,

Do you mind if we put this up on the ORG blog?

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