Policies
WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Oh great. Our passports (which cost IPS a few quid each from the outsourced contractor) are already absurdly expensive. And now Phil Woolas wants to make them even more expensive, including the pointless ones for children: Phil Woolas (Minister of State (the North West), Home Office; Oldham East & Saddleworth, Labour) Together with the Parliamentary […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, July 5th, 2009 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Here is the text of a talk Sir Bonar delivered at the University College of London Open Tech event today: [check against delivery] Ladies and Gentlemen: My name is Bonar Neville-Kingdom. I’m very pleased to be invited to speak to you today at Opentech in my capacity as Her Majesty’s most senior civil servant concerned […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 3rd, 2009 BY Harry Metcalfe AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
We need to be able to authenticate ourselves online. The Government’s Identity Card scheme is in part an attempt to do this, and it’s really bad, but we do need some sort of system that offers more than traditional proofs of identity. I’ve just read Alan Johnson’s article at Comment Is Free. Other than to […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Hurrah! In a step forwards for common sense and a step backward for the Benighted ID Scheme they’ve just scrapped compulsory ID Cards, and abandoned the airside workers scheme (Telegraph – Ian spotted it first) He said the cards will now only be issued to Britons on a voluntary basis meaning no one will ever […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
According to this report, Alan Johnson is abolishing compulsory ID Cards, starting with “air-side” airport workers. As always, the precise detail of this decision is crucial. But let’s hope that this decision marks the beginning of the end of the crazy ID project which has wasted so much money and so much valuable talent. Let’s […]
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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 Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Nice Tim Berners-Lee note about putting government data online, tweeted by the director of digitla engagement.
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