Transformational Government
WRITTEN ON Thursday, December 4th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Hurrah for Hammarberg. This just out from the European Commission: Strasbourg, 4 December 2008 – “Freedom has been compromised in the fight against terrorism after 11 September. Government decisions have undermined human rights principles with flawed arguments about improved security” says the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, on the eve of […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 8th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Transformational Government, What do we want?
Tom points to the science & technology agenda of the Office of the President-Elect Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 6th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Jerry “The Thunderer” Fishenden has another important opinion piece in The Scotsman. Honorary Scot Jerry is Microsoft’s NTO, former head of IT in Parliament, and sits on this new Scottish privacy advisers council. He’s additional evidence that while not everything Microsoft does is good, it has for some years fallen into the happy habit of […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, November 3rd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Hurrah! Doc Searls is in town, spreading the love and wisdom about VRM. He offers the key insight that “A free customer is more valuable than a captive one” And he muses, in all innocence, whether this is a helpful insight for government. Well, not half. It’s the mother of all Wibbies. It’s far easier […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom writes: I see a report in the news media today to the effect that Jacqui Smith will press ahead with proposals to collect more details about people’s phone, email and web-browsing habits. As we all know, the terrorist threat to Britain is growing. There are also measurable increases in other threats such […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, October 13th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
Let’s admit it – three years into “Transformational Government”, amidst all the data nitwittery, nationalisation, general control phreakery and wars on terror and various forms of self-medication government has some quite exciting things going on thanks to technology. It’s not just the online tax disc, is it? How about David Miliband blog DirectionlessGov Identity developments: […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, October 6th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
There’s a terrific article by SA Mathieson in Government Computing in response to the earlier piece by Matthew Taylor about government use of data. He points to limitations and unexpected side-effects of government driven by data. He argues that it ignores the human costs in something like abolishing the common travel area with Ireland, or […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Transformational Government
Sir Bonar writes In my role as technology outreach Czar I’ve had a number of enquiries directed to my private office asking me whether the trade association Intellect actually exists or not. Several callers suggested it is in reality no more than an empty office with a coffee machine around which IT executives gather. One […]
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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 Friday, September 26th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
A proud Home Secretary unveiled a nasty little piece of plastic yesterday. It’s the ultimate symbol of an extravagantly centralising, controlling state. None of the Home Offfice PR about it (see below) make as much sense as William Charles Braithwaite’s observation 89 years ago Evils which have struck their roots deep in the fabric of […]
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