Comments on: Ordnance Survey appoints first (non-exec) chair: Sir Rob Margetts http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2008/08/ordnance-survey-appoints-first-non-exec-chair-sir-rob-margetts/ A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to non-personal data about the UK and its citizens Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:39:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Christopher Roper http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2008/08/ordnance-survey-appoints-first-non-exec-chair-sir-rob-margetts/comment-page-1/#comment-97919 Christopher Roper Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:24:17 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=222#comment-97919 This is more about today's article on Ordnance Survey's lobbying. OS has always lobbied assiduously. The most notable and improper example being its successful effort (working closely with the Met Office) to water down the European Directive on Public Sector Information. This has proved to be an aspirational document, without any teeth, whose provisions have been enshrined in UK law for the past three years, without any discernible impact on the availability of previously unavailable information. Sir Rob Margetts is there on behalf of the Shareholder Executive, to ensure that the Treasury gets the "best possible deal" in the privatisation that is on the agenda, covertly or overtly of both the major political parties. I leave it to readers to decide in whose interest the deal will be the best possible. This is more about today’s article on Ordnance Survey’s lobbying. OS has always lobbied assiduously. The most notable and improper example being its successful effort (working closely with the Met Office) to water down the European Directive on Public Sector Information. This has proved to be an aspirational document, without any teeth, whose provisions have been enshrined in UK law for the past three years, without any discernible impact on the availability of previously unavailable information.

Sir Rob Margetts is there on behalf of the Shareholder Executive, to ensure that the Treasury gets the “best possible deal” in the privatisation that is on the agenda, covertly or overtly of both the major political parties. I leave it to readers to decide in whose interest the deal will be the best possible.

]]> By: Denis Payne http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2008/08/ordnance-survey-appoints-first-non-exec-chair-sir-rob-margetts/comment-page-1/#comment-96643 Denis Payne Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:04:44 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=222#comment-96643 Well, it doesn't answer the actual question, but there's a mini-biography at: http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=483 Well, it doesn’t answer the actual question, but there’s a mini-biography at: http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=483

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