Power of Information
WRITTEN ON Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
Oh wow. Oh wow. Every bit as exciting – and this is saying something – as the Viva Obama Mariachi is the long-awaited first public sighting of the MySociety FoI service. So what does it do? It makes it easy to make FoI requests. It lists central and local government FoI officers, and you can […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, February 18th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
There’s a flattering reference to IdealGov in this week’s Economist, with a bit of a sting in the tail. But it makes me look like an unconstructive critic, so to be true to the spirit of Wibbi I have to add something. The Economist says (in a piece about e-government/i-government called Look it up on […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, February 1st, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Power of Information, What do we want?
So, it’s 31 Jan. In our heady customer-oriented 24/7 world how is the service of paying tax online treating customers? Not too well, suggests the author of last year’s Downing Street Power of Information review: Today is the 31st January 2008. That means all around the UK millions of people will be trying to pay […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, June 25th, 2007 BY Sam Smith AND STORED IN Power of Information
“The Government” has responded to Ed and Tom’s “Power of Information” review. While accepting most of the (with additional work required on 3 of them), they do note that: The Government believes that the Reviewers could have painted a more positive picture of the Government’s progress to date. (link) While the Government is doing good […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 8th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo launched their advice to the government about The Power of Information on Wednesday. It is, in executive summary, pretty cool. It’s written in plain English with no political or Web 2.0 jargon, very expert, and matches a high level of wisdom about what is realistic and achievable with good and […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Online Maps, Power of Information, What do we want?
The power of shared open access to government date was proved 150 ago with the case of the cholera outbreak and the Broad Street pump. Sam points me to this on John Udell’s blog: If you’re an Edward Tufte fan, like me, you’ll know the story of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London, and of […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, May 17th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Litter wardens in Crawley issued an £80 fine to a woman whose toddler dropped two Quavers on the street. Creepy Crawley Council revoked the fine and apologised. Nevertheless Councillor Beryl Mecrow admonished: “People have a responsibility not to drop litter.” It follows the episode of the woman fined for throwing a Wotsit in Luton last […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, April 30th, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
Tom Steinberg, he of MySociety and the #10 Steinberg review on the power of information, has put out a call about user-generated content: Can you perhaps point us to: 1. Examples of places where civil servants or other public officials successfully engage in other people’s user-created sites? (I’m loath to say in other people’s discussions, […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Here are some US examples of attempts to give real transparency to government services and how taxpayers’ money is spent: – White House budget information – scorecards for the US Presidential team – eg how the Chickasaw Recreational Area saves $15,000/yrbuying mice – ExpectMore which sets out which programmes are performing well, which are performing […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, April 21st, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Power of Information
I met Tom the other evening over a Chinese meal. I think I was hoping we would draw up the “Kam-Fuk Declaration” on a napkin, with headings like 1. Make government navigable 2. Deliver pre-emptive Freedom of Information (FoI) Tom is half my age and much smarter about technology. What MySoc has achieved is globally […]
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