Archives: December, 2009
WRITTEN ON Sunday, December 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, What do we want?
There’s a commentable draft of the Australian Government 2.0 taskforce’s report Engage now online. The central recommendation is: A Declaration of Open Government by the Australian Government Accompanying the Government’s announcement of its policy response to this report, the Australian Government should make a Declaration on Open Government, stating that: * Public sector information is [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, December 6th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Government Procurement, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Uncategorized
From The Times Francis Maude, the shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, has written to Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, calling for a moratorium on the £100bn of government IT contracts in the pipeline. This raises a load of questions. What’s the list of contracts? Is it complete and definitive? One can imagine suppliers [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money
Consumer Focus is calling for a rethink of DirectGov which puts the consumer at the centre: Directgov appears to have grown into the massive service it is today without a clear consumer-focused strategy. As described, the 2005 Cabinet Office report, Transformational Government: enabled by technology, set out a vision for transforming services through digital means, [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement, Save Time and Money, What do we want?
Oppositions have always listened better than governments. Labour did up to 1997, and the Tories do now. But this breaks new ground, and on our core theme: government IT strategy: Granted, we had the idea first, but this latest move makes the whole process altogether more serious. Will the government now have to respond with [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement
Time was that government IT strategy was a bit of a geeky fringe interest. But today the idea of crowdsourcing a better government IT strategy becomes part of mainstream political debate with the launch of Makeitbetter. Chip in people – give it your best ideas. I know I shall when I have a mo’ As [...]
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