Top story in today's e-Gov Bulletin is something of a historic event - the appointment, they report, of the 'first council social media officer':
The first local authority worker employed to handle and shape a local authority’s social media output has been appointed by Brighton and Hove City Council.
"As the council’s social media officer, Jane Postlethwaite’s [...]
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Sits Vac
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Post-eGov
Grand Re-Designs
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Post-eGov
A quick peruse of MySociety’s excellent TheyWorkForYou.com reveals the Conservatives have been rather busy lately tabling a raft of parliamentary questions (PQs) – several dozen in fact – about the cost of redesigning government websites. Specifically, the sums spent by Whitehall on revamping their web offerings since 27 June 2007, the date Tony Blair handed over the reins [...]
Tags:government·metrics·online content·performance·transformational government·transparency·user satisfaction·websites
Dissecting 'The Economic Case for Digital Inclusion'
October 26th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Post-eGov
We all want digital inclusion - so I was delighted to see the launch this week of the Race Online 2012 campaign by Martha Lane Fox, the Government's Champion for Digital Inclusion.
Of particular note is new research unveiled by the campaign which attempts, possibly for the first time, to quantify the potential financial benefits to [...]
Tags:digital britain·digital inclusion·efficiency·government·investigation·research·transformational government
Data Sharing: A Debate Not to be Missed
September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Post-eGov
I'm hugely excited by this. Sir David Varney, Gordon Brown's personal advisor on Transformational Government and architect of the Government's approach to data sharing, personalised public services and transformation in general is to face his critics in a public debate next month.
In a rare public appearance, Sir David - a man with a whole agenda [...]
Tags:data sharing·government·privacy·psf·sir bonar·transformational government·varney
The most intrusive Government database ever?
August 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Post-eGov
Very quietly last week, the Government published this report. It's worth reading because it sets out plans to build what is effectively the ultimate 'Big Brother' database.
The project, being led by the Department for Communities and Local Government, is called EPDM, short for 'Effective Partnership Data Management'.
Though sounding fairly innocuous, EPDM has been described by [...]
Tags:data security·data sharing·databases·privacy·transformational government
Whitehall IT Projects vs Mobile Working: An Update
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Post-eGov, mobile
The Department for Work and Pensions' Government Connect project has just issued an alert to councils 'strongly advising' them to review any Windows Mobile deployments for security reasons.
