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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 Saturday, May 31st, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, What do we want?
John Thakara points out Mass LBP, a promising-looking family of feedback mechanisms in Toronto: Governments, public sector agencies, and businesses all spend a ton of cash trying to connect with members of the public. They use focus groups, hold meetings, conduct extensive polling, spam citizens with online surveys, and talk endlessly about social software. Their [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Oh dear. I may have foregone any possible offer of “Lifelong Fellowship of Intellect” and the accompanying rights to graze my oxen in Russell Square. Background: I was in a foul mood in Committee Room 15 after the tedious and intrusive security measures surrounding Parliament. We’ve gone over this ground of trustworthy e-government a gazillion [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, Power of Information, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Here’s the approximate text of a talk I gave last night in Committe Room 15 of the House of Commons, for a Pitcom meeting on “Trustworthy e-Government”. Dr Louise Bennett (of BCS Security Forum) said some might think Trustworthy e-Government was an oxymoron. Trustworthy eGovernment shouldn’t be a subset of egovernment, nor e-government a subset [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 16th, 2008 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Power of Information, What do we want?
We can’t say who said it or where, but the other night we had a meaty dinner conversation (apologies to veggies). Customer Relationship Management (CRM) hasn’t fulfilled its promise, and new ways of doing things are emerging. To what extent may this hold important lessons for government and public services?
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 4th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
After the local election results the Beeb picked up a “we need to listen”meme running through all the Labour reactions (I can’t list them all, but it was endless). Good news I guess for Opinion Leader, Mori, and the other favoured pollsters. My own concern is whether what they practice really is the sort of [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, May 1st, 2008 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Bloomsbury, 1 May 2008 It may be 2009 or even 2010 before the Large Votron Collider (LVC) goes into production but science journalists today were invited to an exclusive preview of its operation. THE EQUIPMENT comprises a huge ring known as the M25, hundreds of miles long, an almost perfect vacuum surrounding the government and [...]
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