We told you so…
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 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 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 Sunday, June 14th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Hurrah, and about bloody time. ALAN JOHNSON, the home secretary, has launched an urgent review of the £6 billion identity card (ID) scheme, paving the way for a possible U-turn on one of Labour’s flagship policies. Johnson, who was promoted in Gordon Brown’s latest cabinet reshuffle, is understood to be “sympathetic” to critics who claim […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Look what Obama is going to do: Build a cybersecurity-based identity management vision and strategy that addresses privacy and civil liberties interests, leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies for the Nation. That’s the cornerstone for user-driven online government I reckon. For VRM, VPI and a whole load of good things we’ve been talking about for years. I hope […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
I’ll blockquote two lines from Polly Toynbee’s article today to spare you having to wade through the rest Alan Johnson is said to be against ID cards. So will he scrap them before the final expensive contracts have to be signed? If so, what loss of face for Brown to admit the enormous waste of […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, June 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
Richard Dearlove on surveillance society, proportionality and the loss of liberties: we have constructed a society which has great technical competence – and some of that competence isn’t particularly regulated. I think the important thing in the UK is that there should be very strict legislation and strict legislative oversight. That’s the former head of […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
About time too: DNA profiles of almost a million innocent people are to be destroyed as part of a major overhaul of the police national database. They include people who have been arrested and never charged, and those taken to court but found not guilty….The campaign group Genewatch, which opposes the DNA database, has warned […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Oh dear oh dear. Head teachers say that stupid, bossy, intrusive, overcentralised poorly-designed pne-size-fits-all bureacracy is making it harder to get help to vulnerable kids (BBC): The NAHT say a small-scale study among their officials in eight local authorities, representing 1000 schools, found that no-one thought the new system, known as the Common Assessment Framework […]
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