If you are going to make sound decisions regarding your welfare, you need access to information. So, why does a government that supports increasing self-responsibility on decisions such as education, health and welfare insist on hiding the good data on issues like “offshoring“?
The summary report, titled “Six-Month Assessment of Workforce Globalization in Certain Knowledge-Based Industries,� may contain useful information, believes Ron Hira, an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, It is “the first and only government study� that could look at all private sector and government data in assembling its research, said Hira.
“I think it’s odd that they would try to cover up the study,� said Hira. “You would think that if we paid for this study we could at least see it.�
Commerce Department officials were not immediately available to comment.
You may find a copy of the 12 page summary at the site for Manufacturing and Technology News which provides a more detailed report (filed in September of 2005) than the Computerworld blub above. Oh, and here is the 42 slide power point presentation the Technology Administration Analysists composed.
