[CivicAccess-discuss] City list of provider: should it be open?

[Karl Dubost]

Le 9 mai 2013 à 12:45, Stéphane Guidoin a écrit :
> it eases my work to reach out all the other providers and set up a collusion/cartel schema.

Creating a barrier or removing it will have consequences on the flow of information, on rules, on social behaviors, etc.

1. Here, in your example, the city is arguing that opacity is a tool used to ensure that there will be no collusion schema. 

2. The next question could be, if the opacity tool is removed, what are the other mechanisms that the city can use to make the right decision.

3. Extending higher, if collusion is bad, in which ways it is bad for the city? How can it be demonstrated? What are the data which helps verify it is bad.


PS: not questioning if the answer you got was justified or not. :) And we all know with the recent events that corruption happens anyway. It has also an interesting twist on the "window without curtains" ethics of life. 




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Karl Dubost
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