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R&D's Erich Hugo on the rise of the benign information dictators

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I sat in meeting today for the whole day in Brussels. The meeting was to define parameters for the European Union's ICT policy. Kind of like the what/when/how/if/yes/no strategy of Europe on the web. My mind is understandably buzzing. But a few thoughts struck me.

Firstly, government. Everybody wants to have an opinion about how bad government is at doing their jobs but very few people actually want to get involved.