Posted by
Russell McOrmond-2 on
Mar 09, 2006; 4:16pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Data-at-Work-Report-Card-on-Homelessness-FCM-QLI-and-CIEH-Maps-tp310p332.html
Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
> Hmmm! Should we tell them? I have some friends who work there and I
> could see if they would be receptive your advice. The issue will be,
> how to fix and redeploy to hundreds of shelters across the country.
The same redeployment would be required for any software upgrade, so
isn't all that relevant to the specifics we are trying to get at.
> Alternatively, they could get a heads up on what not to do next time.
> Russel, is this a GOSLING sorta thing? Anyway, i am glad ya all looked
> a little further.
We are generally trying to get the concept into government that the
rules used to automate government policy must be open and accountable.
It should not matter if these rules are written in legalese (interpreted
by a lawyer/judge) or VisualBasic (Interpreted by a computer), they are
simply government rules.
I have a few ATIP ideas that I'm pursuing, with the HIFIS software
just being one that I thought could get people excited. Why are we
trusting the privacy and other rights of homeless people to secret
government policy?
Imagine a government bill that said:
Title: Bill C-BlankCheque
Summary: The government grants that an undisclosed private sector
company is allowed to do whatever they want with information collected
from the homeless. It will be a violation of this act to to investigate
or disclose the policy followed by this private sector company.
I think people would be upset. Then again, all you have to do is
call that policy "software" and this is effectively what governments are
doing every day.
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