WRITTEN ON Friday, July 31st, 2009 BY Richard S AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?

Writing on Microsoft’s Technet, Jesper M. Johansson has produced a well-reasoned article about ID. Part 1 of his article explains the impossibility – and folly – of trying to bind a person with a single identity; and how such a system would cause many more problems than it would solve.
Does the UK IPS have access [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, July 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?

WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 30th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Mark writes to say
Hope you don’t mind if draw your attention to my article about the latest problem to hit the much delayed government electoral register IT project (CORE).
In case you’re not familiar with it – scheduled to take a few months
back in 2001, it’s still several years away from completion, which is
some going even [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 27th, 2009 BY Paul Smith AND STORED IN Uncategorized

WIBBI that all websites (not just those in the public sector) got reports like this one on IT Director. Well done to Brent … which of course has been winning website awards for some years (best local council website in 1999!).
UPDATE Sadly the rather radical approach taken by David Wilde and his colleagues at Westminster, [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?

Her Majesty’s Government’s CIO discusses on his new blog the 10-year future of the IT industry. He asks us to consider a world where:
The concept of desktop disappears…payment comes from infrastructure as a service…things like ERP become a sequence of transactions…the number of data centres will be dramatically reduced…
Public and private clouds will be pervasive…we [...]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Save Time and Money, What do we want?

Smart Healthcare is carrying an article by me about health records, opposition policy and VRM:
This isn’t a rerun of 1979. It’s not about public sector versus private sector. It’s whether such services should be provided by monopolies or devolved to individuals served by a new breed of companies dedicated to working on their behalf and [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, What do we want?

More criminologists have pointed out the poor statistical analysis behind the Home Office’s DNA database plans, says The Guardian:
“Flawed scientific thinking” in the government’s proposed changes to the DNA database will leave it open to further challenges by the courts, experts have said, in a stark attack on Home Office plans to overhaul the current [...]

WRITTEN ON Saturday, July 18th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Official fibbing/bad stats, We told you so..., What do we want?

Ben “Bad Science” Goldacre has a careful look at the evidence provided to justify DNA database policy by the Jill Dando Institute of Inappropriate Shroudwaving:
In fact, this study from the Jill Dando Institute, attached to their consultation paper as an appendix, is possibly the most unclear and badly presented piece of research I have ever [...]

WRITTEN ON Thursday, July 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

The database carrying the details of 11m children in the UK will be accessible by 390,000 users making the system highly vulnerable at thousands of endpoints. “Why the government has created this security headache in the first place, particularly when their track record on data handling raises serious questions, is something of a mystery”…said Richard [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, July 13th, 2009 BY Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG KCVO AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?

Sir Bonar writes:
The public needs to understand two things.
First is that on their own people’s identities are inherently insecure. My own identity, for example, is Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom GCMG, KCVO. Well and good, you might say. But what if some Tom, Dick or Harry, or perhaps an immigrant, shall we say from Albania were [...]