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Subject: RE: [tgf] Issue 37 - Challenges facing government. Lines 19-23. Content - open
Joe Thanks, now I understand the issue and I agree it is a relevant one we should work round. So how about the following slightly amended version of your proposal: All around the world, governments at national, regional, state, and local levels face huge challenges as a result of often seismic economic, political, social, environmental, and other changes. These governments are called on to make transformative changes in short timeframes. For example, national governments are being called upon to make changes such as raising educational standards to meet the needs of a global knowledge economy, helping our economies adjust to financial upheaval, lifting the world out of poverty when more than a 22 billion people still live on less than a dollar a day, facilitating the transition to a sustainable, inclusive, low-carbon society, and delivering these improvements while reducing the tax burden on our economies. Whilst at the regional, state and local levels of government the focus is more on reducing the size of the administration, reducing taxes and fees, maintaining front line services, etc. Views? John From: Joseph D. Wheeler [mailto:jdw@mtgmc.com] State, local, and federal government leaders in the US would not line up behind all of the changes listed. To some, climate change does not exist. TO others, world poverty is not their problem. Some think that the financial upheaval should be left to market forces. We would turn these leaders off at this point. They may be looking for changes such as reducing the size of government or reducing taxes, fees, etc. My offering tries to soften any negative reaction in the current US culture by making changes listed simply examples. j Joe Wheeler MTG Management Consultants, L.L.C. (206) 442-5010 Phone (206) 849-7772 Mobile Helping our clients make a difference in the lives of the people they serve. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. From: John Borras [mailto:johnaborras@yahoo.co.uk] Joe Which exact words in the current version are the ones that are causing you the problem? If we could focus on those then we might find a quick solution. John From: Peter F Brown [mailto:peter@peterfbrown.com] Joe: This could be a tough one, as you state yourself, and finding the right balance isn’t going to be easy. You’re right to bring it up. Open for comment and discussion Peter From: Joseph D. Wheeler [mailto:jdw@mtgmc.com] Lines 19-23: Given the political trends in the US, this paragraph may be unpalatable to the political leaders that may control adopt of this standard. I offer the following suggestion: All around the world, governments at national, state, and local levels face huge challenges as a result of often seismic economic, political, social, environmental, and other changes. These governments are called on to make transformative changes in short timeframes. World-wide, governments have been called on to make changes such as: · Raising educational standards to meet the needs of a global knowledge economy; · Helping our economies adjust to financial upheaval; · Lifting the world out of poverty when more than a 22 billion people still live on less than a dollar a day; · Facilitating the transition to a sustainable, inclusive, low-carbon society; and · Delivering these improvements while reducing the tax burden on our economies. Joe Wheeler MTG Management Consultants, L.L.C. (206) 442-5010 Phone (206) 849-7772 Mobile Helping our clients make a difference in the lives of the people they serve. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. From: Peter F Brown [mailto:peter@peterfbrown.com] Hi all: Following on from last week’s TC meeting, the editors (Chris and myself) together with John, have had a couple of further rounds of editing and discussion. We will proceed now as follows: 1. Once we have received the formal template from the OASIS TC Administration, I will prepare a first formal draft of the ‘TGF Primer’. We aim to submit this to the TC by the end of this week; 2. This first draft will contain ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ at this early stage and contain a clear disclaimer that it is an early draft and that some/much of the content will probably be moved to a separate, standards-track, document as work progresses; 3. This first draft will not include material that I am preparing for a ‘full’ terminology nor the draft of a reference model – we already know that this is more likely to go in the ‘core’ standard deliverable, so I will leave it out of the Primer, and come back to it at a subsequent TC meeting. 4. The editors’ drafts will be paragraph and line-numbered and drafted in Word; 5. The editors’ drafts will be posted to the TC document repository in PDF only and all TC members will be notified by mail; 6. Any TC member working on a substantial section of this or any deliverable will be sent a copy of that section in an editable file (.doc, .docx, or .odf) and be asked to conform with some filenaming rules. The editors will maintain complete overview of all editable files and ensure that all stable versions are uploaded 7. TC members will be invited to comment on the text (and every new draft thereafter) by submitting a ‘New Issue’. All new issues should indicate the line number(s) concerned; give a short title in the subject line (helpful for threading subsequent discussions); and ndicate the nature of the issue (typo, editorial, conceptual, textual, etc). All new issues will be captured in a simple spreadsheet, the editors will comment and invite further feedback/discussion from the originator and the TC; Detailed guidance will be sent out with the first TGF Primer draft. 8. Based on other TC’s, a large portion of issues are dealt with easily between submitter and editors between meetings – this means that TC meetings can concentrating on discussing and resolving the major issues of concern. 9. The editors will submit the issues list, updated, to each TC meeting, with recommendations for discussion. 10. Generally, a new draft will be prepared in the days following each TC meeting and the cycle above will repeat. I hope this helps! Cheers, Peter Peter F Brown Independent Consultant Transforming our Relationships with Information Technologies Blog pensivepeter.wordpress.com LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/pensivepeter Twitter @pensivepeter P.O. Box 49719, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA Tel: +1.310.694.2278 |
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