[Fsfe-uk] social exclusion and IT

[Graham Seaman]

Continuing today's trawl through government/IT/free software related news...

The government social exclusion unit are running a survey as the basis 
for future policy on IT in relation to social exclusion. Considering 
that at the moment the Brazilian government are basing their entire 'end 
the digital divide' campaign on free software, there's obviously a lot 
of  advantages of free software in this area. If there's anyone around 
working with this  kind of thing,  the questionnaire actually looks 
quite usable (well, apart from being a word document): as well as the  
fixed option questions there are a lot of 'suggest something yourself' 
boxes. Unfortunately the questionnaire tails off into 'how can we 
convince everyone its in their interests to have all their data in 
different departments tied together with an ID car...^H^H^H^H  somehow' 
which I'm a bit allergic to.

Anyone wanting to give it a go:
general background:
http://www.socialexclusion.gov.uk/page.asp?id=499
questionnaire:
http://consultations.socialexclusion.gov.uk/consult/inclusionthroughinnovation/consultationHome

Cheers
Graham