WRITTEN ON November 26th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

High time we updated the IdealGov blogroll (now that Matt has reminded me how to do it in the redesigned version – cheers Matt) and apologies for not doing so way sooner. In time-honoured Web 2.x co-governing manner, please add in comments below any favourites, requests, and suggestions for inclusion or deletion. The old one is below.

Please remember, this isnt anyone’s blog in particular. It’s the blog for anyone interested in what we want from e-enabled government or who is prepared, when confronted with anything which is other than ideal, to ask “woudn’t it be better if…..?”

Sponsor

KINDRED SPIRIT BLOGS etc

Jerry Fishenden

Ian Brown

Richard Allan

Jeff Jonas, IBM

Sam Smith

Whitehall Webby

Matthew Somerville
Robin Wilton, Sun

Will Davies

Headshift

Louise Ferguson



CRITICAL FRIENDS/AWKWARD SQUAD

FIPR

The Big Opt-Out

Action on Rights for Children

No2ID

Light blue touchpaper

Perfect e-democracy

NHS23

Spy blog

Verified Voting

PERTINENT ART

Eclectech: Notional Identity

Ecletech Swizz of the cards

Handelsman: NSA wiretaps

Handelsman: US spying

Wearcam

Googlezon

ACLU privacy pizza

Three dead trolls

Stefanos Pantagis

CLASSIC LINKS


NCC: Playlist for public services

Cluetrain Manifesto

Sousveillance by Steve Mann
Stefan Brands’ book summary

Ross Anderson’s book

Engelbart: Mother of all demos

IDENTITY & SECURITY

Bruce Schneier

Kim Cameron, MS

Stefan Brands, Credentica

Toby Stevens, EPG

Information Commissioner

John Madelin

ID theft spy

Planet Identity

Pledgebank for refuseniks

Home Office ID cards

Credentica

Ann Cavoukian, Ontario

MYSOCIETY & SAM’S STUFF

MySociety/

They work for you

Fax your MP

DirectionlessGov
Comment on This

…and the original

Stand ID card campaign

PUBLIC SERVANT BLOGS

David Milliband

Read my day

Lynne Featherstone MP

David Copperfield – police

Roy Taylor, Kingston

ReadmyDay

Bill Sticker – parking

Ealing Magistrate

Cllr Andrew Brown

Reynolds/Ambulance

MAPS MASHUPS

Plymouth Schools

Ben’s UK speed cameras

5-day weather forecast

House sale prices

g-Traffic info

Place-O-Pedia

For Google maps mashups see
Googlemapsmania blog


ADVISERS, NGOs

Advice now

Advice Services Alliance

Advice UK

Citizens’ Advice

Old stuff
RSS in government blog

One Response to “Admin note: change of blogroll”

 
Andy Galloway wrote on December 22nd, 2009 4:05 pm :

The ultimate aim of IT in Government must surely be to put the power back in the hands of the people. I know we’re a few years away from the Ideal Government, but when any citizen can propose what the subjects of debate will be and who the champions of the “for” and “against” camps will be, and when all citizens can then vote to ensure that only relevant issues occupy our very expensive administrative time, what need then of party politics or central government.

Can anyone explain why, in such a high tech society, I can only choose to vote for who I feel will do the best job on one or two issues. Then after the election I find I have voted in a whole raft of items known laughingly as “The Manifesto”. Why can’t we vote on each of these items individually or at least vote as to whether we want them in the manifesto at all? I believe this is the major reasont that politics is held in such low esteem by the general public. It is not politics that is out of favour but party politics causes all of the problems. There is a rising level of social consciounsess and as a society we are failing to respond to the needs of our citizens. The reason is simple and that is because our political system is still based firmly in the 18th Century. We caould do no worse if we became a Monarchy. At least someone would be able to make some decisions that can help society at least keep up with the social trends. Party politics should be the next thing under the microscope.

My next post will cover the outdated, expensive and totally unfair “Income Tax” system that was only introduced in the 1890s as a temporary measure to fund the Boer War. But I think I’llhave to find another blog for that one because I believe this blog is just about Government IT Issues, and I wouldn’t want to take away from that.

Andy Galloway