But it is a living document, and with luck it will grow into a useful guide to written communication over the web. Even if there weren’t privacy issues in that scenario, the implied installed base and capital expense of equipment means it’s quite a ways off, even if there there were a provable return. There are a lot of editorial boards and others who are very liberal on these types of issues, and they’re not going to agree with us no matter what the level of debate is.
Information on the scale of the crisis was not pooled because the health ministry, other government departments and workers on the ground were so compartmentalised, the report says.