Comments on: Government Cathedrals, Government Bazaars http://www.owen.org/blog/595 Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AJE http://www.owen.org/blog/595/comment-page-1#comment-2318 AJE Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:00:40 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/595#comment-2318 My Grandfather is a subscriber and whenever I'm at my parents there's always a big pile of them that he's sent me - I'm down there next weekend and look forward to reading the latest edition! My Grandfather is a subscriber and whenever I’m at my parents there’s always a big pile of them that he’s sent me – I’m down there next weekend and look forward to reading the latest edition!

]]> By: Owen http://www.owen.org/blog/595/comment-page-1#comment-2317 Owen Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:36:35 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/595#comment-2317 <p>Jim - Thanks. I worry about you sometimes - but I'm glad to know that Public Finance magazine has a reader.</p> <p>Owen</p> Jim – Thanks. I worry about you sometimes – but I’m glad to know that Public Finance magazine has a reader.

Owen

]]> By: Jim http://www.owen.org/blog/595/comment-page-1#comment-2316 Jim Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:01:57 +0000 http://www.owen.org/blog/595#comment-2316 "I am sure that you are all avid readers of <a href="http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Public Finance magazine</a>."<br /><br />Believe it or not, I actually am - not a bad read if you're a policy nerd. It's a good article, too. Sometimes in my madder moments I like to imagine software engineers from local and central government all developing and sharing bottom-up modular systems of the kind you're talking about, sort of like public sector open source. But there is a hell of a lot of inertia to get over first. "I am sure that you are all avid readers of Public Finance magazine."

Believe it or not, I actually am – not a bad read if you’re a policy nerd. It’s a good article, too. Sometimes in my madder moments I like to imagine software engineers from local and central government all developing and sharing bottom-up modular systems of the kind you’re talking about, sort of like public sector open source. But there is a hell of a lot of inertia to get over first.

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