Save Time and Money
WRITTEN ON Thursday, December 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Bad stuff, Data nitwittery, Identity, Official fibbing/bad stats, Pertinent Art, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so...
In a speech yesterday Michael Wills (whom I dont know myself, but he’s Labour member of Parliament for Swindon North, and a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice) called for a new, more courteous and respectful dialogue over government’s use of personal data. IdealGovernment has wanted this for years. But – as he […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, December 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Government Procurement, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Uncategorized
From The Times Francis Maude, the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, has written to Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, calling for a moratorium on the £100bn of government IT contracts in the pipeline. This raises a load of questions. What’s the list of contracts? Is it complete and definitive? One can imagine suppliers […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money
Consumer Focus is calling for a rethink of DirectGov which puts the consumer at the centre: Directgov appears to have grown into the massive service it is today without a clear consumer-focused strategy. As described, the 2005 Cabinet Office report, Transformational Government: enabled by technology, set out a vision for transforming services through digital means, […]
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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 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 Friday, November 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Government Procurement, Save Time and Money, Uncategorized
The storm clouds that lashed the fat-cat bankers and expense-extracting MPs may now be shifting over to government IT suppliers with excessive profit margins and senior government IT staff with over-generous pay packages. The Daily Mail had a pop at Mike Mackay of the Youth Justice Board in August (and fair enough, I’d have thought, […]
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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 Sunday, September 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
This is such a simple and good idea from the Nick Clegg website: Let’s hope it works. It just takes humility to ask others for good ideas. Opposition breeds humility, and the LiDems have had too much opposition.
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
If we want to save time and money, the start point is here (click to downlod pdf):
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WRITTEN ON Monday, August 24th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
See Public Strategist’s writeup. Wish I: – could have been there – was good at all that coding and stuff – still qualified as “young” (though I’d settle for “forever young”) Can there ever have been more of a breath of fresh air in government IT? This is verging on Ideal!
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