Archives: June, 2009
WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 BY David Moss AND STORED IN Transformational Government
From last Friday’s Civil Service Network, Transformation ‘too slow’: Data security concerns could scupper the transformational government agenda, a senior charity figure has warned. It gets better: David Harker, chief executive of the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), has described how a major piece of e-government work has been delayed by the data security concerns that [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?
I’ll blockquote two lines from Polly Toynbee’s article today to spare you having to wade through the rest Alan Johnson is said to be against ID cards. So will he scrap them before the final expensive contracts have to be signed? If so, what loss of face for Brown to admit the enormous waste of [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, June 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Pertinent Art, Political engagement, What do we want?
Oh wow. Debategraph is described at length on the White House web site: Debategraph is a visual policy mapping tool that is being used for running citizen engagement on climate change in Europe. Debategraph translated our mindmap of the redacted transparency proposals into the interactive Debategraph. In this format, the different proposals are rateable, addressable, [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Official fibbing/bad stats, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
Over at Ctrl-Shift Ive tried to sketch out the impact of VRM (buyer-centric commerce, customer-managed relationships, user-driven identity) on public services: It seems to me the effects of VRM on public services will be of four sorts. It will improve public services. It will cut costs. It will de-tox the “database state”. And it is [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, June 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
Richard Dearlove on surveillance society, proportionality and the loss of liberties: we have constructed a society which has great technical competence – and some of that competence isn’t particularly regulated. I think the important thing in the UK is that there should be very strict legislation and strict legislative oversight. That’s the former head of [...]
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