[LINK] Are clueless politicians holding back IT?

[Stilgherrian]

On 04/11/2009, at 9:11 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> Politicians have staff and advisors who should be experts in important
> things.

"Should" is always such a tricky word... ;)


> Your "checklist for politicians" might be appropriate for ministers
> (government and shadow) with responsibility for, or a strong vested
> interest in, ICT (in government it's always ICT, not IT) but for the
> average pollie, I think it goes a bit too far.

I'm not quite convinced. All politicians are voting for policies, and  
I reckon they should be reasonably informed.

As I mention in the article, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of  
different technology choices is no different from the diesel versus  
electric railways example.



> And talking about new things, in your point 1 you state that the NBN  
> is
> a wholesale network: If I read the architecture document <
>
> http://apo.org.au/research/national-broadband-network-reference-architecture
>
>>
> correctly, the NBN is capable of being both a wholesale and retail
> network.

Oh now there's a tip. Thank you. Though do I really want to read that  
damn thing...? :)

Stil


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