Political engagement
WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Oppositions have always listened better than governments. Labour did up to 1997, and the Tories do now. But this breaks new ground, and on our core theme: government IT strategy: Granted, we had the idea first, but this latest move makes the whole process altogether more serious. Will the government now have to respond with […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement
Time was that government IT strategy was a bit of a geeky fringe interest. But today the idea of crowdsourcing a better government IT strategy becomes part of mainstream political debate with the launch of Makeitbetter. Chip in people – give it your best ideas. I know I shall when I have a mo’ As […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, November 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
@NTOUK and @williamheath are heartily fed up with half-baked government IT strategies. Having to read the current proposal is the last straw. Modernising Govt promised the same in 1999. The 2009 draft Government ICT Strategy – New world, new challenges, new opportunities seems oddly detached from the pressing discussions under way about public services renewal. […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Political engagement, Power of Information
Interesting post on transparency in government by Liam Maxwell on the Conservative local government blog: …Once you have gone through the obvious and straightforward, many of the sustainable cost savings we need to generate come through changing peoples’ behaviour: to become more cost effective, to continually recognise and eliminate even small amounts of waste. That […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
David Osimo and Paul Johnston brought the voice of the public into the last day of the official Malmo eGov2009 proceedings. Here’s their video of different people reading their crowd-sourced open declaration: Must have been a good coup de theatre – Ton says it raised a round of applause. Paul recorded me doing one section […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement
In another first for the Malmo09 First popular unConference on eGovernment, Britain’s most senior official responsible for ICTs addresses the people of Europe via video Twitter. In his quest for a lingua franca he flirts with his fluent Farsi but, in an unexpected and courageous move, chooses to express himself in contempory Swedish. Exemplying the […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement, Power of Information
Ivo Gormley directed of the cult hit film UsNow which showed how crowdsourced and participative activity is changing life, from couchsurfing through football. It then asks the question what all this means for government. “Goverment is the most slow to change, which is paradoxical because they have the most to gain.”
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement
The First Popular European e-Government unConference may have claimed another first with a presentation by a senior government Minister in PechaKucha format. Our adhoc replacement projector arrangement did not really do Mats Odell’s slides justice; you can see them here (pdf). The text of his talk is here (pdf). Many thanks to Mats and his […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Pertinent Art, Political engagement
With Ministerial and industry declarations echoing in the conference centre across town Donagh and I are in Garaget in uptown Malmo, preparing for the first popular European e-government conference. We’ve got plenty of “starting point” material and pertinent art. If and when people come tonight we’ll work out a running order together for the unConference […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, September 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, What do we want?
The German-based anti-data retention campaign had 20,000 people marching in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin yesterday. Nice to see last year’s Open Rights Group Freedom not Fear image on their very organised web site. Stoppt den Überwachungswahn! as they put it with such precision.
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