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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
One of the joys of Idealgov is the sheer Wibbi-factor of new technical developments that promise a better future of e-enabled public services. Mydex is one that didnt exist, so Iain Henderson, Jason Hobday, Alan Mitchell and I had to set it up. It uses two developments IdealGov has tracked with interest since before they […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 19th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
I thought The Key was the name of the one and only piece of successful social networking inside govermment – the problem-solving community for head teachers created by TEN for the Teacher Development Agency. But noooooooo no no, it seems it’s now to be the brand for some form of innovation project based in Warrington […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 13th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Hurrah for the car tax disc renewal process. It used to be both inconvenient and pointless. Now it’s just pointless. Wibbi we just rolled it into car insurance.
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 6th, 2008 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
We can’t say who said what or where but this week we had a pretty high-powered get-together about the Power of Information agenda (the exciting challenge for government to support and work with the existing innovation of citizens, and free up state-generated data). You’ll wish you had been there…
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Hey – the Cabinet Office likes to put out bossy papers but can’t lay its hands on what it spends on IT projects. Iain Brown asked them for details of the overall spending by Cabinet Office on the following projects and capabilities since 1st January 2005 and which companies this expenditure has been placed with: […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
The HMRC’s online service for self-assessment Corporation Tax returns is little changed this year. It works reasonably well – if rather slowly today – but it still uses far too much “jargon” for a service which should be aimed at non-specialists who are filing the tax return for a small company. Also, the HMRC acknowledgement […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
DirectionlessGov just nails DirectGov on search time and time again, cheering everyone up and restoring the flagging faith and morale of people of good will who want to see something closer to ideal e-enabled government. I was just checking a Directionless link today from my Pitcom talk below. I found that, exhausted by serving up […]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, May 17th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
The UK’s expensive and dysfunctional clunking great fist of a centralised health records system is going to take four years longer than expected, says the NAO. According to Kable’s mothership The Guardian A £12.7bn upgrade of IT systems throughout the NHS in England will not be completed for at least another six years, four years […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
What an easy answer to the 10p tax problem: Reduce taxation by simply adjusting our “personal allowances”: Minimum bureaucracy, minimum complexity, minimum administration cost. Now, which politician will be brave enough to abolish the silly and grossly unfair TV ownership licence? (Currently 139.50 Pounds per household but equivalent to over 174 Pounds of gross annual […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Save Time and Money, What do we want?
My fourth year of using this HMRC PAYE / NI online service: Another government form successfully submitted … I hope! All went fairly smoothly; the individual web-pages were reasonably clear; even near the end of the rather tight deadline, the service seemed quite fast; an acknowledgement email arrived promptly. Overall – for people who have […]
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