This blog has been created as part of the public consultation phase for the Strategy. The Government seeks to engage the community and is keen to use modern tools, such as this blog, to do so.
Your comments will be considered in the future development of the strategy.
Blogs work best when people contribute simple and easy-for-others-to-understand comments. Some issues associated with the Strategy can be commented on in this way. Others may require a more technical and deeper commentary better communicated via meeting with the team or formal submission of a response document. Therefore, please try and be brief and to the point when commenting. It is not only Government that will read them, fellow citizens will too.
Comments to the blog, in keeping with many other blogs, will be moderated. This moderation aims to keep out comment spam, a problem that all blogs can suffer from. The moderation also means that posts containing profane, racist and inappropriate comment will be removed. The Director of the e-Government Department will be the moderator. Ill-considered comment and un-necessary invective can obscure the issues, cloud the debate and prevent a healthy discussion taking place.
Some Thoughts About Commenting
First of all a big thank you to all who have taken time to participate in this blog so far. As well as a means of making Government more aware of your views it has also created a dialogue between those who have commented. We may not all agree with each others views but it is heartening that a robust dialogue can take place.
Anonymity
Just to re-iterate, you do not have to give your name and e-mail address when commenting. There are fields for entering this information but they are not mandatory. You can always enter a pen-name.
Responding to Comments
Each comment has some information below it, The name, the time etc. If you are responding to some comment please be check who made it carefully. Unfortunately, the formating of the additional information means that it can look like it is associated with the comment below rather than the actual one above. We are investigating how to change the formatting. Remember, it is just like a letter. The signature follows below the body text of the letter.
Go On!
Finally, if you have enjoyed reading all the comments but haven't commented yourself please consider doing so. It may just be a simple 'I agree with the above' or a 'We need to consider this too'. Remember, the purpose of this blog is to encourage participation in our consultation. Go on, participate.
Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)