There ought to be a law that says “Information tends to go corrupt when hidden, and tends to corrupt those who participate in the process of hiding the information,” says JP Rangaswami.
We waste so much in the procurement process for the same reasons. We don’t use the tools we have to discover what’s out there. We don’t make the process a participative one. We make it worse by allowing the tenderers better access to the requirements than anyone else. I’m confused.
As with wikipedia and with the celebrity blogs, there will always be vandals, some in the interests of art, some in the interests of “freedom”, some for the heck of it.
But you don’t shut down record stores because Banksy makes a statement about Paris Hilton.
You don’t shut down museums because Marcel Duchamp puts a moustache on a copy of La Gioconda.
>So why do we do this? Why do we have so much fear of perfect information? So much so we blame the tools, the people, everything.
If you need to build a case for persevering, start here.
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