'Evening All.
Hot off the press, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary has sent me this statement on the MyPolice 'web heist' fandango which rocked the Twitterverse to its foundations today.
Here it is in its full glory:
"We spoke with the owners of mypolice.org, and it is clear that we offer very different online products. Both however aim [...]
Entries Tagged as 'government'
MyPolice/My Police: HMIC Speaks
March 10th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Digital Stuff
Tags:government·HMIC·mypolice·social media·transformational government·web 2.0
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
Public Sector Data Sharing - More Developments
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
While penning an update for Public Sector Forums on the 'Effective Partnership Data Management' project I blogged about recently, I was alerted to the fact that a government review of information sharing legislation around benefits data is currently underway.
Given the public kerfuffle and subsequent climb-down earlier this year over the Coroners Bill, I hunted high [...]
Tags:data sharing·government·privacy·transformational government
Sums Gone to Iceland: One Year On
October 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
(Latest article for Public Sector Forums.)
A whole year has passed since almost £1 billion of local government money was sucked into a financial black-hole following the collapse of the Icelandic banking system.
So how are things faring with the battle to recoup the cash trapped in frozen Icelandic bank accounts?
Over to the Local Government Association, which has [...]
Tags:finance·government
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
Links of the Week - 10 July 2009
July 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Linkrolls
Public Sector Blogs improved: UK public sector blogging in one place - and now on Twitter @PubSecBloggers (via: Paul Canning)
Timetric – 'YouTube for Data' brings us MPs' second home expenses claims visualised. (Hat tip: Dave Briggs)
Google targets local government.
1 rule and 6 steps to embracing Social Media in Local Government from Carl Haggerty: 'Rule Number [...]
Open Source Gov: A Small Victory of Sorts
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
open source, online content, social web, Web 2.0, government, public sector, social media, e-petition, e-democracy
Tags:edemocracy·government·online content·open source·social media·software·timely information for citizens·ukgovoss·web 2.0
Latest Gov Web Guidance Unleashed
June 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Government websites are to get a new set of national performance indicators to compare how well they perform against other sites, it transpires.
The 'Web Performance Management Framework' (PMF) as it is called is currently being developed by the Cabinet Office's Contact Council unit.
Details of the work were disclosed in new government web guidelines published by [...]
Tags:benchmarking·government·guidelines·KPIs·metrics·nao·performance·PMF·toolkits·user satisfaction·varney·wcag·websites
