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Welcome to Brussels - where 'open' can mean 'closed'

Nov 03, 2009

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There are few things that annoy me more than fake transparency. The duplicity of being lied to makes it all the worse when you realise somebody who says they're being open with you is, in fact, just pretending.

Right now, we're experiencing an epidemic of openness, particularly in government. Just witness the way that everybody from Barack Obama to David Cameron to San Francisco is jumping on the open bandwagon to get an idea of the importance of the concept of openness in government at the moment. Along the way, the buzzword gets grabbed by anyone trying to appear transparent - such as Adobe, who are trying to market closed standards as open ones in order to get more business from government.

Now, it seems, there could be a whole new attempt to pay lip service to openness for me to get annoyed about.

Somewhere in a dark corner of the Brussels, there is a document known as the European Interoperability Framework - an outline for governments giving them a basic idea of how to make sure their computer systems work together.

The EIF is not the law, per se, but it i

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