Archives: May, 2009
WRITTEN ON Friday, May 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Political engagement, What do we want?
Just got the latest No2ID newsletter. I’m just staggered at the strength of their argument, their analysis behind the spin, the clarity of their thinking and thei organisational capability. These people do this on a shoestring. And yet – correct me if I’m wrong – I’ve yet to hear anyone in government or indeed any [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, May 8th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized
The 18million-views-a-month, all singing government portal – direct.gov.uk – has launched an RSS feed on swine flu . All jolly good stuff of course but there are a couple of “buts”. First that there’s something very wrong when the press release quotes Jayne Nickalls, Directgov CEO as saying “we carry regular updates and information relating [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
While private companies will clearly benefit from the increased footfall from offering this service, their customers will benefit from being able to quickly provide their biometrics while they are out doing their shopping. Ah yes. Quite. Er, how exactly?
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WRITTEN ON Monday, May 4th, 2009 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Sir Bonar writes from his home (where he remains on gardening leave in the wake of the unfortunate and still unresolved Arabic-themed nightclub incident): It has been a good year for the fritilleries, and a wonderful one for violets, cowslips and our beloved euphorbias. But even while on gardening leave one is able to make [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
About time too: DNA profiles of almost a million innocent people are to be destroyed as part of a major overhaul of the police national database. They include people who have been arrested and never charged, and those taken to court but found not guilty….The campaign group Genewatch, which opposes the DNA database, has warned [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Oh dear oh dear. Head teachers say that stupid, bossy, intrusive, overcentralised poorly-designed pne-size-fits-all bureacracy is making it harder to get help to vulnerable kids (BBC): The NAHT say a small-scale study among their officials in eight local authorities, representing 1000 schools, found that no-one thought the new system, known as the Common Assessment Framework [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Update. Here’s Sam’s widget which can embed a free, powerful and direct “voice” on public services for people in any web site. It’s such a powerful capability, it holds such potential that I laughed out loud in the shower thinking about it. We’ve got six months’ moderation funded. We can tag and sort the input, [...]
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