[Ssf] about quangos and civic pride campaigns

[noone noone]

Just to clarify i am not part of sheffield university and the papers i gave 
the link to are not my work, i just stole the knowledge, i like call it 
learning from others(!).  Also i do not know the people who sit on the big 
quangos so if anyone has any knowledge of them i am keen to learn.

cuthbert


>From: Amparo Gutierrez <amparo2yo at telefonica.net>
>To: ssf at lists.aktivix.org
>Subject: Re: [Ssf] about quangos and civic pride campaigns
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:52:43 +0200
>
>
>I feel that the danger is the not many people actually know who sits on the 
>big quangos and how normal people like us can affect the decision making 
>proccess.  Recently there was a big scandal over the "heart of the city" 
>project and creative sheffield, it maybe somthing to investigate.
>
>thanks for the link to sheff univ papers, noone noone i suppose some of you 
>are already investigating, what about publishing the public biographies of 
>those big quangos members? so we could see the existing relationships and 
>conflicts of interests if any: their pictures, biographies including birth, 
>schools attended, family background, spouses ... and memorable stupidities 
>said or done. ...
>
>amp
>
>
>
>noone noone wrote:
>
>>>how are quangos  meant to be "independent" bodies when they are directly 
>>>appointed (their members) by a Minister?
>>
>>
>>The theory is that because quangos are not directly accountable to the 
>>electorate (i.e. us) they are "independent" of political monuvering and 
>>point scoring, also they are often appointed by committee not nessasarily 
>>by a minister.  The other "benefit" to quangos is that they sometimes have 
>>experts in a particular field sitting on the commitee like architects, 
>>buissness people or academics.  Most of the time the elected people in 
>>parlament or the city council just don't know enough about the field that 
>>the quango operates in or don't have the time to be able to micro-manage 
>>every last transaction that the quango makes.
>>
>>There is far more about the subject of quangos here: 
>>http://www.shef.ac.uk/~perc/quangos.html
>>
>>I feel that the danger is the not many people actually know who sits on 
>>the big quangos and how normal people like us can affect the decision 
>>making proccess.  Recently there was a big scandal over the "heart of the 
>>city" project and creative sheffield, it maybe somthing to investigate.
>>
>>
>>cuthbert
>
>
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