WRITTEN ON Friday, December 18th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board, Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Ideal Goverment - project, Ideal government IT strategy, Identity, Pertinent Art, Policies, Political engagement, Power of Information, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so...

It’s time to say what we want from government IT.
Let’s do this together. Let’s say “wouldn’t it be better if” about how tech affects transparency, costs and the quality of public services and how they affect our lives.
@ntouk and I have long since been fed up with what one senior Whitehall official yesterday called [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, December 7th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Ideal Goverment - project, Transformational Government, What do we want?

At first glance the new Smarter Government white paper looks pretty refreshing.
The stuff on freeing up data is good:
‘Public data’ are ‘government-held non-personal data that are collected or generated in the course of public service delivery’.
Our public data principles state that:
* Public data will be published in reusable, machine-readable form
[...]

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 an [...]

WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 21st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

The prize for spotting redesigned Idealgov as it meandered through the global DNS system is a CD of 21gov.net’s new State of the eUnion book. Winners are Public Strategist (whose comments on the Ministerial declaration are well worth a read) and our own long-time contributor David Moss. To be handed over when we meet for [...]

WRITTEN ON Saturday, November 7th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

We’re preparing Idealgov for a refresh and rebirth. Meanwhile we’re looking forward to the first popular spontaneous European e-Gov event: Malmo09.org.

WRITTEN ON Friday, October 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

IdealGov can continue. Delighted to say the powers that be at GNM listened carefully and have had a change of heart. Given the community it has formed, and once they took on board the problems that changing domains would cause in terms of broken links etc they have – very kindly, I must say – [...]

WRITTEN ON Monday, June 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: Co-creation, Foundation of Trust, Ideal Goverment - project, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

A distinguished Twitterer points out that the link to the original IdealGov presentation I did in Nov 2004 to Ian Watmore, then UK government CIO, is broken. So I’ve dusted down an old PC, found the original, and put it up on Slideshare:
IdealGov ideas for Gov CIO Nov 2004
View more OpenOffice presentations from William [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, February 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

The moderator is off on hols for the next two weeks. And I’ve been more than distracted for the last few. So I’ve been quiet, and will be quieter still. But there’s more going on than ever: more to celebrate (Power of Info, US developments) and more to deplore (more data sharing and the onward [...]

WRITTEN ON Friday, January 2nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal Goverment - project

My site is worth$7,249

Wow. It’s all been worth while.

WRITTEN ON Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Ideal Goverment - project, What do we want?

The emergence of sinister new web tracking and advertising services of dubious legality makes the following statement necessary:
www.idealgovernment.com: notice
The contents of this site, and communications between this site and its users, are protected by database right, copyright, confidentiality and the right not to be intercepted conferred by section 1(3) of the UK Regulation of Investigatory [...]