Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Joining up the SPOCs

The SPOCs have taken over while I wasn’t looking.

There are all sorts:

Scandinavian Pediatric Obesity Conference (SPOC)

The supply potential optimal control model, SPOC, for identifying the optimal harvest of old-growth forests

An extranuclear spindle-organizing centre (abbreviated SPOC) possessed by Physarum amoebae

Large proteins characterised by N-terminal RNA-binding motifs and a highly conserved C-terminal SPOC (Spen paralog and ortholog C-terminal) domain. The function of the SPOC domain is unknown

But the Government attaches importance to the SPOC concept and to the training of SPOCs. Caroline Flint, then a Home Office Minister, told Parliament so on 4 November 2003.
They are meant to be everywhere in Government – problems with the SPOC contributed to the loss of the Child Benefit data

But, as a citizen, I have a problem

Don’t I also have a JUG (Joined Up Government)?

So, if I have a SPOC, should they not also answer all my questions about everything the Government does?


The connectivity will be infinite