more thoughts on government in the digital age

The book I’ve written with Alan Brown and Mark Thompson — Digitizing Government — is out. It’s here on Amazon UK and here as a Kindle

Understanding and implementing new digital business models

Our new book about understanding and implementing new digital business models, Digitizing Government, is published 1st December in the UK and 26th December in the

be careful what you wish for … (part 94)

Hold on — haven’t we been here before? There’s something very familiar about the recent unveiling of new powers for the state to snoop on the

Happy 20th anniversary online government

It’s 20 years ago this month that the UK government first launched a website intended to provide a simplified, single point of access to information from

random access memories

I’m often asked how I got into computing in a generation when neither IT not computer science were on the school curriculum. So, I’ll try to

more on the 1999 change of address demonstrator ….

I mentioned in a previous post the work done in the late 1990s to put online a change of address service. This service enabled citizens