Use of PPS Numbers..

The literati over at Digital Rights Ireland have a nice posting on their blog about the issues surrounding the use of PPS numbers and the overwhelming need for clarity of governance in their use to avoid ‘scope creep’.

Here is the link to that post… http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/04/20/pps-numbers-and-cradle-to-grave-tracking/

Defined processes that address identified root causes, operating in the context of a clear Governance model supported by appropriate technology and Information Architecture, building from a baseline that may be set through initial scrap and rework to recover quality is the only sustainable solution to the Electoral Register issues.

The proposals to extend the use of PPS Numbers without a clearly established Governance raises the spectre of scope creep in the use of both the PPS and Electoral register data.