Why Can’t Local Government and Open Source Be Friends? (guardian.co.uk)

You’ve got to love the Freedom of Information act. Especially its ability to show, in stark terms, quite how badly local government can screw up.

Yes, Birmingham City Council, I’m afraid I’m looking at you.

Heather Brooke, who kicked off the whole MP’s expenses thing, made an FOI request to Birmingham CC about a website it was building…

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