Public Sector m-commerce
The forthcoming trial of the mobile phone Oyster could signal the emergence of m-commerce in the Public sector. As UK citizens are becoming more accustomed to cash-less payment systems like “chip and...
View ArticleReality overtakes parody: examples
How I wish it were 1 April, but it’s not. Three jaw-dropping news items today, as parody becomes reality faster than we can make it up… The US Court of Appeal has confirmed airlines can chuck you off a...
View ArticleFreedom of Information & Email Addresses Thoughts
As some people may have noticed, mySociety have recently launched another website. This one, WhatDoTheyKnow is a Freedom of Information filer, I’ll let you read the blurb on the site about how it...
View ArticleReasons to be cheerful: year three
Let’s admit it – three years into “Transformational Government”, amidst all the data nitwittery, nationalisation, general control phreakery and wars on terror and various forms of self-medication...
View ArticleLovely mypublicservices home-bake event
Loved every minute I attended of the mypublicservices09 event. After Malmo09 that’s two DIY public-services events in two weeks. They feel natural, creative, fun and important. It struck me that this...
View Articlepreannouncement: CTPR/IdealGov ICT strategy competition
@NTOUK and @williamheath are heartily fed up with half-baked government IT strategies. Having to read the current proposal is the last straw. Modernising Govt promised the same in 1999. The 2009 draft...
View ArticleThe owl of Minerva first flies at breaking dusk
In light of the Smarter Government launch Ive been racking my brains for that Morike quote. Can only find Hegel on the German Wikipedia die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung...
View ArticleTime to say what we want from government IT
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...
View ArticleInitial thoughts on the PM’s #bbdf
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...
View ArticleSeeking best practice to inform ‘next’ practice
Following on from Will’s post below, I’m pleased to say that in places (albeit all rather far from the Westminster media hub) people ARE using the burning platform of the current economic situation as...
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