Political engagement
WRITTEN ON Friday, September 4th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
Having dumped controversial former chief executive Wally O’Dell in 2005Diebold has now finally dumped its e-voting unit. This was a deeply unpleasant history, and the new buyer Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is far from Ideal.
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WRITTEN ON Monday, August 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, What do we want?
Blythe writes to point out a new Scottish government consultation on identity and privacy. Though there’s a limit to Scotland’s freedom of action on these issues, that seems somehow to act as a spur to them working harder to understand these issues in a contempory manner. So well worth responding to I’d have thought.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Mark writes to say Hope you don’t mind if draw your attention to my article about the latest problem to hit the much delayed government electoral register IT project (CORE). In case you’re not familiar with it – scheduled to take a few months back in 2001, it’s still several years away from completion, which […]
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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 Saturday, June 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
[updated] Here’s a socking great Tweet from David Cameron to Imperial College. He lambasts control state Britain, ID cards, ContactPoint, RIPA and the surveillance state. These things are, as we have said many times, far form Ideal. But he goes on speak with some conviction and some detail on a positive agenda of transparency, accountabiliy […]
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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 Saturday, June 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
My FIPR colleague Douwe Korff points out the opinion of the article 29 working party on proposed amendments to the e-privacy directive (Opinion 1/2009 of 10 february 2009, WP159)…
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 18th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, What do we want?
reposted from williamheath.net: Following the example of the Iranian football team the Twitterverse is turning green. What do the Mullahs make of that I wonder? Tweeting against fundamentalism and old-fashioned cockocracy. When I went into the sector in 1982 nobody told me that mixing government and IT would end up with a global community tickling […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, June 15th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
David Price has a blog, with interesting things on it. He has an initiative going with David Osimo In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on eGovernment will be published at the Malmo conference. Building on the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels early this year, and at the initiative of David Osimo and Paul […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement
Steiney’s on the march with another MySoc campaign: Earlier in the year you fought a campaign to prevent MPs voting to hide their expenses. And you won, and Parliament was shaken to its foundations. Now MPs are about to vote for a new Speaker. Some of the Candidates publicly endorse clear principles of transparency and […]
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