Across the Board
WRITTEN ON Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 BY Louise Ferguson AND STORED IN Across the Board
I really think we need to move away from the false distinction between central government and all the rest. Government is government, whether local, regional or national. Citizens are not interested in *which* level of government is responsible for something. One example. The government’s consultations website, run by the Cabinet Office, only includes central government […]
CONTINUE READING - Comments Off on Local and national a false distinction
WRITTEN ON Monday, October 18th, 2004 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board
PRIME looks very much like an EU project trying to implement a decent privacy wish list. The Prime principles are: Design must start from maximum privacy Explicit privacy rules govern system usage Privacy rules must be enforced, not just stated Privacy enforcement must be trustworthy Users need easy and intuitive abstractions of privacy Privacy needs […]
CONTINUE READING - Comments Off on Prime principles of privacy in e-enabled systems
WRITTEN ON Monday, October 18th, 2004 BY Louise Ferguson AND STORED IN Across the Board
I’m going to return to the idea of process as opposed to object. At the launch of Touching the State last week (co-produced by the Design Council and think tank IPPR) at the Houses of Parliament, someone asked whether we need to educate politicians about design. Most concurred. And, I’d add, we need to educate […]
CONTINUE READING - LEAVE A COMMENT (3)
WRITTEN ON Monday, October 18th, 2004 BY Simon Banton AND STORED IN Across the Board
An ideal government should supply the raw data and the formulae they use to come up with, say, the number of unemployed, the consumer price index, the average waiting list time for an operation, levels of crime, and so on. What would today’s figures be if we used the same calculations and methodology that used […]
CONTINUE READING - LEAVE A COMMENT (2)
Reduction of legal risk through, and other advantages of, the adoption of RSS and email subscription
WRITTEN ON Friday, October 15th, 2004 BY Richard Best AND STORED IN Across the Board, Political engagement
Consultation processes Earlier posts have helpfully commented on how government departments can put RSS to good use in disseminating information (New Zealand e-Government RSS ahead) and on how consultation processes can be more efficiently managed online (Some thoughts on consultations online). From a legal risk perspective, there may be a happy marriage between these two […]
CONTINUE READING - LEAVE A COMMENT (1)
WRITTEN ON Friday, October 15th, 2004 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board
I think decent e-enabled government could help make speeding less of a problem. Many of us want to proceed with brisk urgency, but encounter dreary inflexible metal signs telling us not to. Occasional expensive cameras make the car in front brake suddenly. If we dont brake suddenly the cameras trigger an unpleasant transaction involving the […]
CONTINUE READING - LEAVE A COMMENT (5)
WRITTEN ON Sunday, October 10th, 2004 BY Dr Geoff Pickering AND STORED IN Across the Board
Let me look at one example: visa applications. If one applies for a visa to visit Australia everything is done on-line. The forms are web based (not image scans). All data can be easily input in one go and payment made by credit/debit card. Once it is processed you are informed by email or post […]
CONTINUE READING - Comments Off on Do we want a better way to get visas, or just a better way to get the form?
WRITTEN ON Sunday, October 10th, 2004 BY Jason Kitcat AND STORED IN Across the Board, Political engagement
Assuming Government want more people to take part in consultations then putting consultations online is ‘a good thing’. Online consultations are often easier to run, more flexible and more likely to garner responses. Sending an email is much easier than responding to a paper-based consultation. Paper-based consultation processes usually involve, in my experience, the following […]
CONTINUE READING - Comments Off on Some thoughts on consultations online
WRITTEN ON Friday, October 8th, 2004 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board, Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
I resurrected this – see below – from an internal discussion on the internal FIPR mail list, so here it is with thanks to fellow FIPR advisers for their help and expertise.
CONTINUE READING - LEAVE A COMMENT (1)
WRITTEN ON Friday, October 1st, 2004 BY Robin Grant AND STORED IN Across the Board, Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement
8 years is a long time ago, especially when measured in ‘internet time‘, yet The Wired UK Manifesto, hailing from October 1996, is remarkably prescient: Transparency is the first duty of government Freedom of information – in the town hall in Whitehall in Edinburgh, Brussels and Westminster and even in the vehicle licensing centre in […]
CONTINUE READING - LEAVE A COMMENT (2)
