Archives: June, 2009
WRITTEN ON Monday, June 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
A distinguished Twitterer points out that the link to the original IdealGov presentation I did in Nov 2004 to Ian Watmore, then UK government CIO, is broken. So I’ve dusted down an old PC, found the original, and put it up on Slideshare: IdealGov ideas for Gov CIO Nov 2004 View more presentations from William [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
My FIPR colleague Douwe Korff points out the opinion of the article 29 working party on proposed amendments to the e-privacy directive (Opinion 1/2009 of 10 february 2009, WP159)…
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Identity, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
Oh hurrah. Jerry “The Thunderer” Fishenden is a free man. His NTOUK blog no longer refers to Microsoft UK’s national technical officer, but to Jerry’s own New Technological Observations from UK perspective. He’s also serving up it with hot salsa in The Register. Topic One: the Benighted ID Card Scheme: UK Identity Card 1.0 is [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, June 18th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, What do we want?
reposted from williamheath.net: Following the example of the Iranian football team the Twitterverse is turning green. What do the Mullahs make of that I wonder? Tweeting against fundamentalism and old-fashioned cockocracy. When I went into the sector in 1982 nobody told me that mixing government and IT would end up with a global community tickling [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, June 15th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Political engagement, We told you so..., What do we want?
David Price has a blog, with interesting things on it. He has an initiative going with David Osimo In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on eGovernment will be published at the Malmo conference. Building on the Public Services 2.0 workshop in Brussels early this year, and at the initiative of David Osimo and Paul [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 14th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Hurrah, and about bloody time. ALAN JOHNSON, the home secretary, has launched an urgent review of the £6 billion identity card (ID) scheme, paving the way for a possible U-turn on one of Labour’s flagship policies. Johnson, who was promoted in Gordon Brown’s latest cabinet reshuffle, is understood to be “sympathetic” to critics who claim [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement
Steiney’s on the march with another MySoc campaign: Earlier in the year you fought a campaign to prevent MPs voting to hide their expenses. And you won, and Parliament was shaken to its foundations. Now MPs are about to vote for a new Speaker. Some of the Candidates publicly endorse clear principles of transparency and [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 12th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, What do we want?
The outgoing – and perhaps demob happy – Information Commissioner may say some important things: on his way out ‘We live in a free society. We value our freedoms. Sometimes it is a step too far if people err on the side of the collection of data for the sake of collecting data, rather than [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Look what Obama is going to do: Build a cybersecurity-based identity management vision and strategy that addresses privacy and civil liberties interests, leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies for the Nation. That’s the cornerstone for user-driven online government I reckon. For VRM, VPI and a whole load of good things we’ve been talking about for years. I hope [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Transformational Government
Anyone can submit a Form 287 to Companies House. On that form, anyone can specify any registered address for any company. I now know that from first hand experience. Using Forms 288 a, b and c, I believe that anyone can appoint anyone as a director of any company, or retire them or change their [...]
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