What do we want?
WRITTEN ON Sunday, February 28th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
- The latest Dutch e-Citizen Charter and
- OSFA proposed guidelines for Open Government
UPDATE: make that three:
http://opengovernmentdata.org/
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, February 27th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy, Save Time and Money
I dont get this.
The 2011 Census will adopt a similar processing strategy to that used in the 2001 Census.
But this is a £500m deal. And it’s 10 years on. Shouldn’t things have changed more than this?
The Times reported
The ONS has already formed a working group to investigate alternatives to the census. It will present [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, February 25th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
OK: here’s a big fat post. I havent got this right yet, but there’s something here. Please help me, people.
The British government after the election will have serious and urgent challenges. Government’s IT suppliers are in a critical position. They could prolong the challenges and obstruct attempts to overcome them. Or they could help, [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Ideal government IT strategy
Most people don’t care that we’re drafting with CTPR an Ideal Government It Strategy, and one or two people are even being a bit sneering about it because they can’t see the point.
It’s going great guns and we’re completely up for it. The reason it’s important is that if you’re frustrated with the status [...]
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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 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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