The Centre for Technology Policy Research in the U.K has made recommendations about the use of technology to transform government as an open platform.

A few interesting points:

• Cloud computing - similar to the U.S. government’s initiative.
• Drop the idea of large databases and instead play on the idea of using specialist cloud players (which means Microsoft’s HealthVault and Google)

As someone else said - I do believe that the best thing would be to draft laws as a wiki, with full revision history !