Identity
WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Philip Virgo likes the new IPS policy which is called Safeguarding your identity. I’m not so sure: Philip: It’s late and I havent read it carefully. But the whole statement is built on the assumption that goverment should be our identity provider for online services. But I think there’s a strong case to be made […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 28th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Bang. That makes a hat-trick of Ideal-Government agenda nails hit on the head by Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition this week. Liam Maxwell’s CPS pamphlet ‘It’s ours – Why we, not government, must own our data” is a must-read. And a tonic. Essentially it’s a long-overdue VRM manifesto for government IT, which also places a lot […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
The Lords’ Constitution Committee has given its verdict on the government response to its report Surveillance: Citizens and the State we are disappointed that the Government’s response does not fully appreciate the danger posed by surveillance to privacy and the relationship between individuals and the state. We regret that the Government have not agreed to […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Cracking speech by Dame Pauline Neville-Jones. She concludes: As I made clear at the start, the individual is the rightful owner of personal information and the state is merely possessor and should behave as a responsible custodian. We need to roll back the advance of Big Brother and restore this fundamental right of our citizens. […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, June 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
While digging out old presentations I found this private briefing to (the xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx) Sir James Crosby who at the time was advising Gordon Brown about ID management. private briefing for Sir James Crosby by William Heath View more OpenOffice presentations from William Heath. The presentation set out the communications problems surrounding the ID debate so […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Identity, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Oh hurrah. Jerry “The Thunderer” Fishenden is a free man. His NTOUK blog no longer refers to Microsoft UK’s national technical officer, but to Jerry’s own New Technological Observations from UK perspective. He’s also serving up it with hot salsa in The Register. Topic One: the Benighted ID Card Scheme: UK Identity Card 1.0 is […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 14th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Hurrah, and about bloody time. ALAN JOHNSON, the home secretary, has launched an urgent review of the £6 billion identity card (ID) scheme, paving the way for a possible U-turn on one of Labour’s flagship policies. Johnson, who was promoted in Gordon Brown’s latest cabinet reshuffle, is understood to be “sympathetic” to critics who claim […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Look what Obama is going to do: Build a cybersecurity-based identity management vision and strategy that addresses privacy and civil liberties interests, leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies for the Nation. That’s the cornerstone for user-driven online government I reckon. For VRM, VPI and a whole load of good things we’ve been talking about for years. I hope […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
I’ll blockquote two lines from Polly Toynbee’s article today to spare you having to wade through the rest Alan Johnson is said to be against ID cards. So will he scrap them before the final expensive contracts have to be signed? If so, what loss of face for Brown to admit the enormous waste of […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Official fibbing/bad stats, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Over at Ctrl-Shift Ive tried to sketch out the impact of VRM (buyer-centric commerce, customer-managed relationships, user-driven identity) on public services: It seems to me the effects of VRM on public services will be of four sorts. It will improve public services. It will cut costs. It will de-tox the “database state”. And it is […]
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