From: Stanton McCandlish <mech@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 08:29:59 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: from a source who said "NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION" re: National Performance Review (fwd)
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A "National Privacy Protection Board" ?!


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> Posted-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 08:35:15 -0400
> Message-Id: <9310131235.AA08993@linc.cis.upenn.edu>
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> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 08:35:15 -0400
> From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
> Subject: from a source who said "NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION" re: National Performance Review
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> 
> "The Vice President's recent report "From Red Tape to Results: Creating a
> Government that Works Better and Costs Less (National Performance Review)
> is peppered with recommendations about how to use information technology to
> "reinvent government."  They would put in place an administrative
> infrastructure that empowers agencies and tracks progress, and undoing much
> of the entrenched bureaucracy that evolved and got ossified in the single
> vendor-mainframe era. 
> 
> The meat behind the recommendations, teased together with much help from
> industry and information technology experts, is in a yet unreleased
> technical report, and it appears that it may never be vetted in public. The
> reason seems to be fears within the VP's public relations hirearchy, that
> the background report may generate controversy. This one should- among the
> ossified. Early and inaccurate drafts have begun circulating, raising risks
> that many of the good ideas will be stillborn as bureaucratic barriers that
> threaten the status quo are errected. 
> 
> The recommendations include no-brainers (placing all agencies on the
> Internet and spreading e-mail through all agencies), huge $ savers
> (generating agency agreements for integrating tactical law enforcemnt
> network technology) and actual innovations (replacing the infamous "GSA
> Schedule" (which slows federal procurement of IT and raises costs) with a
> real time electronic marketplace. Some short acronym agencies appear
> sensitive to a proposal for a National Privacy Protection Board.
> 
> Curious? Take a look at the report on the UNC Sunsite Gopher. Want to know
> more contact the VP and tell him!"
> 
> 
> 


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