Archives: May, 2010
WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 30th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project, Identity, Pertinent Art
In 2008 I made the rash promise that when the benighted ID Scheme was cancelled I would perform a celebratory “Dance of the Intellectual Pygmies”. Well – here it is. The idea is we can all do it en masse at various celebratory events. Choreography is by Aliya Saleem, filming, editing and captions by Richard [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, May 20th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Policies, Save Time and Money
As well as the good stuff on civil liberties noted below, the governing coalition’s Progamme for Government (pdf download) has this on government IT procurement: We will take steps to open up government procurement and reduce costs; and we will publish government ICT contracts online. We will create a level playing field for opensource software [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
The LibDem-Conservative coalition is probably the closest to Ideal outcome for civil liberties. According to the BBC Civil liberties The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion. This will include: # A Freedom or Great Repeal [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, May 6th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project, Ideal government IT strategy, Wibbipedia/MindtheGap
Busy as we all are, @ricallan (who else) observes we might do well to schedule in a quick #idealgits event: Date TBA in next four weeks (ie before mid June) Time 1700-2130 Venue ideally BCS or LSE or elsewhere (any offers?) Aim – to keep new administration listening by offering maximum bright ideas pertinent to [...]
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