Re: UKNM: The Government Internet Tzar - whatever happened with it!!!!

[Clay Shirky]

> Remember a few months back, well towards the end of last year the Government

> talked about appointing a special Internet Tzar for e-commerce and other

> Internet issues.

> 

> This person was supposed to start in April, but the question is have they

> actually appointed this person?


No - the Times just had a good article on this recently, the upshot of

which was that anyone senior enough for the job would have to take a

massive cut in pay to go from private industry to Government service.


the two figures they mentioned by name were the MD of Miscrosoft UK,

who they felt would ignite a storm of protest, and Mandleson, for whom

the job was thought to be too much of a step down on the ministerial

ladder.


I'll look for a URL of the article...


-clay 

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