28 Sep 2004

Thoughts from the front line on how we counter terrorism abroad

In broad terms, at basic operational level, we need further
maximisation both of the security and the speed/flexibility of
communications. This could greatly improve efficiency.

My impression is that we (HMG) are already some way ahead
of others on this. But things are still pretty clunky
for the most secure stuff.

Secure remote working is also still quite hard.

In broader security terms, we need greater ability to prevent misuse of the
internet, eg tracking of hosts whose sites incite/facilitate/promote
terrorism. But this of course runs up against the classic difficulty of
balancing security against privacy and civil liberties.

We need ways to ease the difficulties of establishing post-conflict democracies,
for example - off the top of my head - e-voting by mobile phone. One can see
huge and obvious technical/security difficulties, but distributing mobile phones
by which votes could be cast might be a lot better than vulnerable polling
stations. Probably barmy.

Posted by Anon on 28/09/04 at 8:23am
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Let's say what we want from e-enabled government. Let's observe government first-hand. Let's say "Wouldn't It Be Better If" (WIBBI). Become an ethnographer of bureaucracy today! It beats getting frustrated with public services.

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