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Updated UK Government ID Assurance Principles published
As I mentioned in ID Assurance Principles — an interim update, the privacy-related principles that will underpin the UK Government’s identity assurance programme for digital public services have continued to be developed — and yesterday, the latest draft was published online. This … Continue reading
reforming government technology and the #CIO100
This has been a busy and significant week for government’s reform of technology, and its role in improving our public services. On Tuesday, the UK government’s Chief Technology Officer, Liam Maxwell, posted a blog on Rebalancing technology across government. He … Continue reading
from Phidgets to Kinect
Some of my earlier research into user interaction with sound and images of the past of place developed a prototype interface using Phidgets — some of which can be seen in the video below. For the next stage I thought … Continue reading
digital government, open architecture and innovation: why public sector IT will never be the same again
UPDATED 07.09.2012: see postscript The paper I co-authored with Mark Thompson is now online – “Digital government, open architecture, and innovation: Why public sector IT will never be the same again”. This appears in the advance access section of the Journal … Continue reading
“enterprise” IT – out of touch and increasingly irrelevant?
So okay … I know it’s been asked before, but it’s not going to stop me asking it again anyway: is the traditional ‘enterprise’ IT department dead? And, if not, why not? What on earth is its purpose? My recent … Continue reading
Posted in IT, IT strategy, security, technology, technology policy
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whilst not blogging …
… I have remained busy writing elsewhere, including the following: “Platform alteration“, CIO March 2012 “G-Cloud is open for business“, CIO February 2012 “Digital defaulters value focus over process“, CIO, January 2012 “Free and radical“, CIO, December 2011 “CIOs’ central … Continue reading
the disruptive cloud
The recent announcement that Amazon has created a secure web space for the US government is hardly going to make anyone fall off their chair in surprise. Ensuring that cloud services can be used by governments has been the direction … Continue reading
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cyberspace and the riots
A variety of media, politicians and commentators have rushed to blame social media such as Twitter and Facebook for helping fuel the recent riots in London and elsewhere, with calls to “switch them off” when they appear to be assisting … Continue reading
bridging the faultline
There has long been a recognition at a political level of the important role that IT could play in helping rethink and improve our public services, as the recent House of Commons PASC report on Government IT makes clear. Yet despite the … Continue reading
House of Commons publishes its Report on Government IT
The House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has today published its report on Government and IT (PDF). I had the privilege of working for the Committee as their Specialist Adviser for this inquiry. I hope the report will help bring … Continue reading
