WRITTEN ON June 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

A distinguished Twitterer points out that the link to the original IdealGov presentation I did in Nov 2004 to Ian Watmore, then UK government CIO, is broken. So I’ve dusted down an old PC, found the original, and put it up on Slideshare:

The point we were Twittering about was that Tom Watson asked if Kate Lundy was the most progressive politician in the world. I felt her three pillars of open government:

* Citizen-centric services
* Open and transparent government
* Innovation facilitation

published in June 2009 were excellent, but not dissimilar to the three themes that IdealGov readers brainstormed in mid 2004:

– co-design with users
– build a foundation of trust
– quick win suggestions

Our phrasing goes a bit deeper, because there’s a lot more to trust than transparency, especially when you consider the crucial issues of handling personal data. And there’s a great deal more to co-creation than being user-centric. A laser-guided missile can be user-centric.

So this goes cheerfully in the “We told you so” category which is becoming over-used. I’ better get the old files restored and the whole blog reassembled on WordPress (know anyone reliable who’s up for that?) I much preferred Stephen Young of PlatformOne’s original design. Meanwhile thank heavens that old computers sometimes still work, and for Slideshare.