Archives: January, 2010
WRITTEN ON Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Online Maps, Power of Information
My short response to the Ordnance Survey data consultation
I think the phrase “making public data public” says it all. When a tautology is radical it’s an oblique way of saying we’re in the wrong place.
The UK needs vibrant emerging online services built on universally applicable data sets which the taxpayer has paid for already. [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, January 18th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Jerry Michalski runs regular conference calls on emerging tech issues called Yi-Tan. I took part in one on participative medicine in December and learned loads. It feels great to dial into a conference line and share thoughts with world experts in a respectful live exchange.
Next Tuesday, Martin Luther King Day, Jerry’s Yi-Tan is about open [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, January 10th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Ideal government IT strategy
No public service has ever been formally designed, from intention to execution. Every single one of them should have been.
That was the nub of an Aha-Erlebnis conversation with the late and much-lamented Charles Cox (who at that time was MD of EDS, responsible for delivering more on-line Whitehall services than everyone else put together). [...]
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, January 9th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
Wingham Rowan prompts the CTPR/Ideal Government IT strategy to think bigger. In a splendid contribution to the #idealgits wiki he raises the deep, wide question of to what extent we can now rethink public services altogether in the light of what the net makes possible.
In 1995 the music business struggled with the question: “how [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 8th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Policies, Political engagement, What do we want?
Ha! The clever old Tories have just raised the bar several notches in our highly specific ideal-gov world. The “makeitbetter” site, where we were all invited to pile in to point out the glaring shortcomings in a leaked draft government IT strategy, has struck an unexpected positive note with the addition of an “our proposed [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 8th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Political engagement
The new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has a consultation up on MPs expenses. Do it, people! If we don’t fill it out now and feed back, we can hardly complain if we don’t like how MPs’ expenses work in future.
It’s a deceptively simple looking web site which is easy to use but pretty thorough [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, January 1st, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
IdealGov and CTPR are crowdsourcing a wise, inventive, experienced government IT strategy to offer all major political parties as they finalise their plans and go into the imminent election.
We’ll blog each major stage either here on IdealGov or on the CTPR blog. And the back end is on the IdealGov open wiki.
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