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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 Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Uncategorized
Let’s focus first on the big picture: the shape and role of the CTPR Ideal Government IT Stategy (Twitter hashtag: #idealgits).
Jerry and I are proposing an emerging shape which looks like this (links are to the wiki pages. None is finished; all are started):
1. Statement on the role of contempory technology in government [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Uncategorized
At the invitation of IPS and Intellect I gave a Ctrl-Shift talk about the role of the individual in future public services. It’s material that will be familiar to the IdealGov posse, but I was apprehensive because this is a close-knit community very focussed on large contracts and not known for welcoming alternate views.
We [...]
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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 are lobbying [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, November 29th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Funny what happens when you set up a competition to write a better IT strategy. I’ve had three comments offering me drugs I’ve never heard of, plus one offering zoo sex. The new Wordpress deals quickly and efficiently with spam, but I’d better tune up those filters.
Then I hear that ther may be a [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, November 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Government Procurement, Save Time and Money, Uncategorized
The storm clouds that lashed the fat-cat bankers and expense-extracting MPs may now be shifting over to government IT suppliers with excessive profit margins and senior government IT staff with over-generous pay packages. The Daily Mail had a pop at Mike Mackay of the Youth Justice Board in August (and fair enough, I’d have thought, [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, November 20th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Lovely photoset by Ton of the Garaget setting and our preparations for the Malmo09 unConference.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 19th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
Don T kindly slipped me an advance copy of the State of the eUnion book initiated by John Goetze. At quick glance seems to have very promising contributions from global brands Tim O’Reilly, Larry Lessig and Dave Weinberger along with high quality stuff from locally better-known faves such as Lee from Headshift, Dave Osimo, Olov [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
High time someone asked this sort of question:
speaker:Oliver Letwin : 1 Written Answer
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Written Answers – Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services (26 Oct 2009)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-10-26a.295035.h&s=speaker%3A10355#g295035.q0
Oliver Letwin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether HM Revenue
and Customs (HMRC) accrued revenue in the last three months from callers
to HMRC 08 telephone numbers being kept on line while [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, September 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Uncategorized
It’s time to wind this thing down. The Guardian owns and pays for this site and domain, and has decided the blog has run its course, which is entirely their prerogative and fair enough. They’ve been great for the last two years.
We’ve got, I think, a final four weeks before it closes end October. [...]
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