Policies
WRITTEN ON Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Political engagement, Power of Information
Interesting post on transparency in government by Liam Maxwell on the Conservative local government blog: …Once you have gone through the obvious and straightforward, many of the sustainable cost savings we need to generate come through changing peoples’ behaviour: to become more cost effective, to continually recognise and eliminate even small amounts of waste. That […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement, Power of Information
Ivo Gormley directed of the cult hit film UsNow which showed how crowdsourced and participative activity is changing life, from couchsurfing through football. It then asks the question what all this means for government. “Goverment is the most slow to change, which is paradoxical because they have the most to gain.”
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WRITTEN ON Friday, September 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
This powerful No2ID ad – much more striking, foreful and truthful than the stupid Home Office smiley-fingerprints ads launched today – was the subject, it seems, of complaint to the Advertising Standards Association by one single reader of the New Statesman. pdf here The complaints were: that the ad: 1. misleadingly exaggerated the information that […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
My letter to ONS I’ve been asked (by pacifists and others concerned that the 2011 census is managed by a US defence contractor) what are the legal options for non-participation. I know it’s not a question you’ll welcome, [however] I believe I fully understand the arguments about why it’s safe and a good thing to […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, September 12th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
It has been a leitmotiv through years of Government-Idealism that the UK National Identity Scheme offers no perceptible benefit to the ordinary citizen or taxpayer. Ministers have once or twice protested they’re about to tell us what the benefits are (while conceding it will offer no online functionality “in the present phase” ie until 2020 […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Pleased to be able to report the dogs b*llocks of ID announcements: Washington, D.C. – September 9, 2009 – Ten industry leaders – Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems – announced today they will support the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Here’s a seven laws of identity poster from Kim’s blog. Cool. I wish they were plastered all over St James’ Park tube.
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
This in from Scotland Public sector organisations should avoid creating large centralised databases of personal information and keep clear audit trails of how identity data is used, under new proposals published today. Leads into their consultation on privacy (see below). The draft privacy principles are worth repeating: # Proving identity or entitlement: people should only […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, August 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, What do we want?
Blythe writes to point out a new Scottish government consultation on identity and privacy. Though there’s a limit to Scotland’s freedom of action on these issues, that seems somehow to act as a spur to them working harder to understand these issues in a contempory manner. So well worth responding to I’d have thought.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, We told you so..., What do we want?
Wowser. Kable’s Philippe Martin (who developed the original ID costing model on which all sensible industry estimates and also the LSE’s estimates were based) reckons cancelling the Benighted ID Scheme will still save £3.1bn. A detailed analysis of the National Identity Scheme’s costs for UK citizens by Kable suggests that the £4.95bn cost over 10 […]
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