Power of Information
WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, Power of Information, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Computer Weekly picked up some comments at the Labour conference Former home secretary Charles Clarke said Labour has experienced “all kinds of problems” since coming into power in 1997. “The potential of IT, whether it is individual records in the NHS or ID cards, is enormous understanding it and how to procure it is very […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Power of Information, What do we want?
It can only be a matter of time before a scene like this is acted out somewhere in Whitehall:
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 10th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
Here’s our* first suggestion for the Showusabetterway competition: Name: Thanks-but-Ill-do-the-personalising-myself-if-you-dont-mind-ta-very-much.gov.uk Description: DIY Personalised services Datasets required: – DWP and HMRC benefits rules engines – HMRC tax computation engine – listing of health services and facilities – rules according to which health services are made available – ditto for education and leisure How it works: User […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, July 6th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
OPSI has set up a public-sector data unlocking service to support the Power of Information work. To quote OPSI: we know that people can encounter problems from time to time getting hold of the information they need in the formats they want. Difficulties can include problems with charging, licensing or the data standards that public […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, July 5th, 2008 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Power of Information, Transformational Government
Sir Bonar writes At Tom Watson’s insistence I reluctantly consented to attend something called Open Tech at London University this weekend. It was something of a rush to squeeze it in before Wimbledon, to which Raytheon had kindly invited me, and I must confess I’m in some doubt as to whether I even found the […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, July 4th, 2008 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Political engagement, Power of Information
In this video interview, Prof. Lawrence Lessig covers many relevant topics including the interplay between technology, democracy and government. He was speaking at the recent Personal Democracy Forum in NYC. The USA has a very different political system but we do need more discussion about the role & potential of technology in restoring UK democracy.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
On closer inspection, the Power of Information work is gathering pace and getting quite exciting. Nine years ago UpMyStreet founder Stef Magdalinski berated a baffled audience of civil servants at the GC99 Expo, telling them to “Give us your data” (Tom recalls him saying give us your f*cking data, but I don’t). Now Richard Allan […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
Hurrah! Three years after we launched the IdealGov government data mashups competition (it was Tom F’s idea) the government has launched a government data mashups competition (Beeb). What an excellent idea. I’m awash with nostalgia. It’s called Showusabetterway. And the better news is the Power of Information task force has put up a £20,000 prize […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
I’ve been remiss in not flagging up the Power of Information blog which Richard Allan and Tom Watson have started up. Richard is in his element in the place where politics and public services meet data architecture – see for example his explanation of how Public Whip opens up Hansard data. I never understood that. […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 6th, 2008 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
We can’t say who said what or where but this week we had a pretty high-powered get-together about the Power of Information agenda (the exciting challenge for government to support and work with the existing innovation of citizens, and free up state-generated data). You’ll wish you had been there…
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