WRITTEN ON Friday, August 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Save Time and Money, We told you so..., What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap

WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, We told you so..., What do we want?

Wowser. Kable’s Philippe Martin (who developed the original ID costing model on which all sensible industry estimates and also the LSE’s estimates were based) reckons cancelling the Benighted ID Scheme will still save £3.1bn. A detailed analysis of the National Identity Scheme’s costs for UK citizens by Kable suggests that the £4.95bn cost over 10 […]

WRITTEN ON Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

Another Jerry Fishenden post crying out for comment from HMG’s blogging CIO John Suffolk. In the killer graph, green line is public sector IT spend, blue line total inputs, and red line is productivity. Click to enlarge:

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 […]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Smart Healthcare is carrying an article by me about health records, opposition policy and VRM: This isn’t a rerun of 1979. It’s not about public sector versus private sector. It’s whether such services should be provided by monopolies or devolved to individuals served by a new breed of companies dedicated to working on their behalf […]

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Not only are our passports too expensive (cf €59 for the Irish); they leak our personal details through their insecure RFID chips. This is far from Ideal. This, it seems, is the device we need to cure the latter problem:

WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Nice Tim Berners-Lee note about putting government data online, tweeted by the director of digitla engagement.

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 […]

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 […]

WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Official fibbing/bad stats, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?

Over at Ctrl-Shift Ive tried to sketch out the impact of VRM (buyer-centric commerce, customer-managed relationships, user-driven identity) on public services: It seems to me the effects of VRM on public services will be of four sorts. It will improve public services. It will cut costs. It will de-tox the “database state”. And it is […]