Archives: March, 2010
WRITTEN ON Monday, March 29th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Identity, Transformational Government, We told you so...
The #idealgits process now has a supportive champion in Jim Knight, DWP Minister charged with all digital aspects of Smarter Government. Jerry and I had a second meeting (we can’t really say where or with whom) at which it was Jim who led in setting out the case for personal control over personal data. There’s [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 25th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity
Ive been contacted by a school governor who doesn’t want to see their school bounced into fingerprinting the kids, and wonders what to do. They’ve prepared this draft briefing for a governor’s meeting this weekend. Looks pretty damn good to me. Is it right? Anything to add? Reasons For Not Introducing Fingerprinting To [xyz] School [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Uncategorized
First presentation of our crowdsourced “ideal government IT strategy” #idealgits work was yesterday to Rt Hon Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform. Jim is tasked with all digital aspects of the Smarter Government policy. Ideal Gov Pres View more presentations from William Heath. He couldn’t have been more welcoming, attentive [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, March 22nd, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board
Big day in government IT as the PM makes a swathe of announcements on Building Britain’s Digital Future (see eg Benjamin’s round up here, or the Twitterstream #bbdf). I was NFI, and therefore unable to participate in this stage of the courteous & mutualy respectful dialogue #CMRD. Initial impressions: Much of the rhetoric seems to [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, March 22nd, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
As the next step in the “courteous and mutually respectful dialogue” #CMRD Jerry and I have 30 mins booked with Jim Knight, the DWP Minister responsible for digital aspects of Smarter Government tomorrow Tuesday. It’s not long, and here’s how we plan to use it: Aim: make constructive start to respectful, creative “crowd-sourced” IT strategy [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 18th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
We’ve put the draft Ideal Government IT Strategy up in commentable form. Many thanks to all who have contributed content and comments to date on the blog and on the wiki. Jerry, David at BCS and I hacked these sections together in a day from that raw content, trying to respect the thrust of all [...]
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