Ideal government IT strategy
WRITTEN ON Thursday, February 25th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
OK: here’s a big fat post. I havent got this right yet, but there’s something here. Please help me, people. The British government after the election will have serious and urgent challenges. Government’s IT suppliers are in a critical position. They could prolong the challenges and obstruct attempts to overcome them. Or they could help, […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
Most people don’t care that we’re drafting with CTPR an Ideal Government It Strategy, and one or two people are even being a bit sneering about it because they can’t see the point. It’s going great guns and we’re completely up for it. The reason it’s important is that if you’re frustrated with the status […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 10th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Ideal government IT strategy
No public service has ever been formally designed, from intention to execution. Every single one of them should have been. That was the nub of an Aha-Erlebnis conversation with the late and much-lamented Charles Cox (who at that time was MD of EDS, responsible for delivering more on-line Whitehall services than everyone else put together). […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, January 9th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
Wingham Rowan prompts the CTPR/Ideal Government IT strategy to think bigger. In a splendid contribution to the #idealgits wiki he raises the deep, wide question of to what extent we can now rethink public services altogether in the light of what the net makes possible. In 1995 the music business struggled with the question: “how […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 8th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Policies, Political engagement, What do we want?
Ha! The clever old Tories have just raised the bar several notches in our highly specific ideal-gov world. The “makeitbetter” site, where we were all invited to pile in to point out the glaring shortcomings in a leaked draft government IT strategy, has struck an unexpected positive note with the addition of an “our proposed […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 1st, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
IdealGov and CTPR are crowdsourcing a wise, inventive, experienced government IT strategy to offer all major political parties as they finalise their plans and go into the imminent election. We’ll blog each major stage either here on IdealGov or on the CTPR blog. And the back end is on the IdealGov open wiki. You can […]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, December 28th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
Britain’s ideal government IT strategy (#idealgits) first needs a plain top-level statement of the role of technology in the context of the society we’re trying to become. We’re going to try to set this out here. It has to address the big issues directly and succinctly. This means it has to support the overriding economic […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Uncategorized
Let’s focus first on the big picture: the shape and role of the CTPR Ideal Government IT Stategy (Twitter hashtag: #idealgits). Jerry and I are proposing an emerging shape which looks like this (links are to the wiki pages. None is finished; all are started): 1. Statement on the role of contempory technology in government […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, December 18th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board, Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Ideal Goverment - project, Ideal government IT strategy, Identity, Pertinent Art, Policies, Political engagement, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so...
It’s time to say what we want from government IT. Let’s do this together. Let’s say “wouldn’t it be better if” about how tech affects transparency, costs and the quality of public services and how they affect our lives. @ntouk and I have long since been fed up with what one senior Whitehall official yesterday […]
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