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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
A rational approach to personal-data logistics in education would not simply rely on centrally held databses. It would also build on the individual’s personal portable education record.
Like other services, education needs an online bridge between the individual and the service provider. But to date we’ve only built the organisation’s end of the bridge.
The [...]
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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 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 called [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, March 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Personal data is valuable. Government has twigged that, which is why it’s trying to grab so much: it’s the oil of the new economy. But just how much personal data does government hold?
The JRRT Database State report mapped out the top 46 or so government databases. But I had no idea hom much data lies [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Hurrah. I see from Kablenet that Directgov has appointed three new directors.
Injection of fresh blood is just what DirectGov needs. Obviously we need wonderful, clear, well designed online services. DirectGov, the “flagship” has fallen into a dark place of editorialising in a broadcasting PR monotone, backed with a self-referential and hilariously inept search service. [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
“WIBBI the government listened to people”, a thoughtful person may say.
Well, good news, thoughtful person, they do. It says so in this press release from the Home Office:
ID cards are on time, and on budget
6 November 2008
The Home Secretary today announced significant progress in the national identity scheme, which will protect your identity in the [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Sir Bonar writes:
I was disturbed to observe in a recent meeting that a female colleague from FCO appeared to be sweating. She was also carrying a helmet. It transpired she had come to our meeting by bicycle. Really, these devices are everywhere now. That very morning a cyclist had nearly damaged the paint on my [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, Power of Information, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Computer Weekly picked up some comments at the Labour conference
Former home secretary Charles Clarke said Labour has experienced “all kinds of problems” since coming into power in 1997. “The potential of IT, whether it is individual records in the NHS or ID cards, is enormous understanding it and how to procure it is very difficult,” [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, September 8th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
I see the excellent Harry Metcalfe of Tellthemwhatyouthink (whose presentation at Tower08 Sir Bonar found “most unimpressive” and “frankly disrespectful towards DirectGov”) has used MySociety’s excellent FoI service Whatdotheyknow to try to establish the cost of the IPS’s curiously disapppointing MyLifeMyID web site.
mylifemyid Research Programme
Research Objectives
The key research objectives of the website are to:-
• Provide [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Transformational Government
In all the excitement I forgot to note the publication in June of the civil service blogging code. Of course Jeremy picked up on this weeks ago. I cant really imagine guidelines under which Civil Serf would reanimate, but I wonder if this would bring back Owen Barder? It strikes me as concise and pretty [...]
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