Political engagement
WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Pertinent Art, Political engagement, What do we want?
Oh wow. Debategraph is described at length on the White House web site: Debategraph is a visual policy mapping tool that is being used for running citizen engagement on climate change in Europe. Debategraph translated our mindmap of the redacted transparency proposals into the interactive Debategraph. In this format, the different proposals are rateable, addressable, […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement
From the 1943 Bavarian White Rose movement (leaflet #3): …why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanised state system presided over by […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Political engagement
There are a whole load of interesting angles and comments on the Guardian site. I particularly enjoyed Michael White’s piece – that assertive parliamentary committees play a vital role in holding government to account. It does run counter, however, to the slightly-urban-myth view that the greatest barrier to change in the public sector is the […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, May 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Wow. Opposition (Tory) MPs’ expense claims live in real time, powered by Googledocs, with XML feed if you’re that interested. The transparency is surprising, but isnt the speed with which this can now happen much more remakable still?
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
The Parliamentary procedures committee wants action and progres on e-petitions to Parliament (from press release): The Government should think again about its waning support for a parliamentary e-petitions system and should allow the project to move forward. The Procedure Committee today publishes a report, regretting the apparent lack of will by the Government to support […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, What do we want?
Just got the latest No2ID newsletter. I’m just staggered at the strength of their argument, their analysis behind the spin, the clarity of their thinking and thei organisational capability. These people do this on a shoestring. And yet – correct me if I’m wrong – I’ve yet to hear anyone in government or indeed any […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, March 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
So, did the government receive JRRT’s Database State report in a tender and creative spirit? Did they for one moment consider their Transformation Government plans might be mistaken? Not really. To judge by the initial reaction from Michael Wills on the BBC Radio Four Today programme they seem to prefer counter-attack us, rather than stop […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, Political engagement, What do we want?
Couple of nuggets in Obama’s weekly address: To lower health care cost, cut medical errors, and improve care, we’ll computerize the nation’s health record in five years, saving billions of dollars in health care costs and countless lives. Hey! Why dont we sell them NPfIT/CfH? On second thoughts…let’s just see how they go about it. […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, What do we want?
The Sunday Times exposes Experian corrupting our legislative process. It seems they paid a bent peer who agreed to amend legislation in the company’s favour. Lord Taylor of Blackburn claimed he had changed the law to help his client Experian, the credit check company. Taylor told the reporters: “I will work within the rules, but […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement
It’s Obama party day. Hurrah! Pray nothing bad happens. Interesting piece on the geeks behind Obama’s web strategy: the people, the history, and the question of where it goes now (Boston Globe) It’s far from clear whether all of this amounts to substantive change, or merely represents a patina of changelike communications. Obama’s campaign promised […]
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