£250,000 Torfaen digital project labelled 'an embarrassment'

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-36182156

£250,000 Torfaen digital project labelled 'an embarrassment'

A website awarded £250,000 to "unleash the wealth of wisdom" of people in Torfaen has been criticised after registering 340 users in two years - a cost of over £700 per user - before going offline.
The Big Lottery fund in Wales said the Wisdom Bank site was funded to share knowledge, and had "met its targets".
After its funding ended last year, Torfaen council took it over.

But the site is currently down because of a "temporary technical issue".

Mike Harris, a councillor on the authority's audit committee, said continued public funding of the site would be like "flogging a dead horse".

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[JimC]

I blame Pappa...

[cronus]

I blame Pappa...

I thought it was part of a franchise...he'd been setting up.

[pErvinalia]

I blame the sheep.

[JimC]

The ewes were asking for it!

[mistermack]

£250,000 to set up a website ?

Well, someone must have done all right out of it.

[cronus]

£250,000 to set up a website ?

Well, someone must have done all right out of it.

The Welsh aren't as canny as the Scots, or it wouldn't be in the press, but they'll milk that free cash cow as long as milk is available.

[Rum]

Welsh Labour should all be locked up. They are an incompetent, self seeking and serving bunch of crooks.

[JimC]

Welsh Labour should all be locked up. They are an incompetent, self seeking and serving bunch of crooks.

Rum, why use all those words when they can be replaced by one?

Politicians...

[Pappa]

This kind of thing is fairly normal for publicly funded projects. I used to work for a company that funded themselves almost entirely with Welsh Assembly or European grants, and rarely produced anything worth worth anything.

[piscator]

Shit like this is why America will never knowingly elect a Socialist president.

[Brian Peacock]

The ewes were asking for it!

Get the flock outa here, see!

[klr]

Any political initiative which tries to market, promote or exploit new-fangled technology is invariably doomed to costly failure.

And if this project "met its targets", that could only be because they were deliberately set as low as possible..

[Brian Peacock]

Or the targets simply involved 'spending all the money'.

[klr]

Or the targets simply involved 'spending all the money'.

Can't argue with that one.