Ideal Goverment – project
WRITTEN ON Thursday, October 18th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project, What do we want?
Do we have the vision to fix this Transformational-Direct-Gov old-socialist “Age of Change” IT strategy, with its centralising plans for health, identity management and children? We’ve pushed since the first Ideal Gov presentation the ideas of quick wins, co-creation or co-governance and a foundation of trust. People respond well, especially when it’s presented with levity […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project, Transformational Government, What do we want?
We want government and public services to treat people with respect, as if they were the servants not the masters, cost less money, sort out problems honestly and quickly and behave in a generally ideal manner. That means, I think we can agree, a pretty deep and broad culture change in the best part of […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, September 14th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
I now see (on return from leave in Nova Scotia) just how bad the comment spam situation has become. 1. Sorry about that. 2. Pending a better solution I’ve restricted comments to members (ie registered authors) only. If you’re not an author (or forgotten password whatever) please email me. If they’re about Ideal Gov I’ll […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, September 13th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
Ideal Gov is our watering hole for ethnographers pf bureaucracy who like to – describe e-enabled govermment as they encounter it – ask what we really want and – say “wouldnt it be better if…” but it’s under siege from semi-literate vendors of dubious products. Cease and desist, you off-topic spammers! The present policy is […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 30th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
Now that Kable (the Ideal Government mothership) has become part of Guardian News & Media its time to take stock of where Ideal Government has got to since September 2004. Shall we do more, or pack it in? We’ve written a decent-sized book here. The stats say 1293 articles over 79 pages, 1846 comments, 171 […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, July 1st, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
Dear IE users: the helpful stuff on the left seems to have disappeared way down the screen (scroll “way down”, as Elvis put it). Not sure how long has this been going on, as Sarah Vaughan put it. I never noticed because I use Firefox. We’ll try and fix it, but it wont be today.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 14th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Ideal Goverment - project, Identity, Pertinent Art, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
It’s publicly official! We’ve had a sensational ideal government walk-thru experience. Ruth and I have been a bit preoccupied creating it and therefore perhaps a little quiet on this blog. Forgive us, but I hope you’ll agree the efforts were not in vain. Inpsired by our dear friends at the NCC and with the support […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, May 26th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
Political Blogs on RateItAll I’m testing out this widget by Laurence Coburn of Rateitall who was a fellow-speaker at last night’s OpenBusiness Minibar. Just rate Ideal Gov, and type in your feedback. Rateitall sorts out the rest. Could it be easier? If it seems to work, let’s keep it on the sidebar. Laurence’s work, and […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 25th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
We’ve had a really long run of little or no comment spam but now it’s well and truly over. SORRY about all the mechanised rubbish being sent on. We’ll need a major fix. Bear with us.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 8th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project
We’ve lost the opinionated and technically brilliant Chris Lightfoot. Just as MySoc went seriously national (with the 1.8m signature road pricing petition and a major Downing Street policy initiative drawing on their work) it seems that life became too much for Chris. I only hope he understood how much we appreciated and valued him. There’s […]
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