Transformational Government
WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
The database carrying the details of 11m children in the UK will be accessible by 390,000 users making the system highly vulnerable at thousands of endpoints. “Why the government has created this security headache in the first place, particularly when their track record on data handling raises serious questions, is something of a mystery”…said Richard […]
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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 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 Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
A distinguished Twitterer points out that the link to the original IdealGov presentation I did in Nov 2004 to Ian Watmore, then UK government CIO, is broken. So I’ve dusted down an old PC, found the original, and put it up on Slideshare: IdealGov ideas for Gov CIO Nov 2004 View more presentations from William […]
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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 Friday, June 12th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
The outgoing – and perhaps demob happy – Information Commissioner may say some important things: on his way out ‘We live in a free society. We value our freedoms. Sometimes it is a step too far if people err on the side of the collection of data for the sake of collecting data, rather than […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Transformational Government
Anyone can submit a Form 287 to Companies House. On that form, anyone can specify any registered address for any company. I now know that from first hand experience. Using Forms 288 a, b and c, I believe that anyone can appoint anyone as a director of any company, or retire them or change their […]
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