Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Public service oddities: Accounts Owl edition

I really don't think that council accounts are read by anyone who doesn't have some fixed, and normally quite dull, purpose in mind. Despite that Shropshire County Council have clearly decided they need to make their accounts (PDF) more accessible, more user friendly. How? With an owl and what I think is a weasel discussing them.




Brilliant.

4 comments:

Meg said...

I have no idea if this would be available online, but when I was in one of those EU Information Shops in Berlin last year among their many booklets and information packets there was a comic book. Well, a graphic novel, really... about the bureaucracy involved in a particular environmental regulation. They had seriously put together a whole comic book story about a VERY DRAMATIC environmental incident and took you all the way through the offices that would handle it, complete with footnotes about the exact regulations.

Lord James Bigglesworth said...

Bound to be a best seller, Matt.

Meg said...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_1_35/ai_99933007

Chris PIke said...

Clearly Matthew that is a mole