ID Assurance Principles — an interim update

I’ve had many requests for updates on progress with the status of the identity assurance principles intended to underpin the new UK government identity assurance

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

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

augmented reality – from lab to app

Going through my research material, I stumbled across some of the prototyping I’d done with augmented reality and layers of the past of London. This

travels in Japan

Just back from an enjoyable (first) trip to Japan, a wonderful mix of high-tech and traditional culture. And a rich and varied feast for the

creative collaboration

Digital artist Cynthia Beth Rubin is artist in residence at the Menden-Deuer Oceanography lab. I’ve long been a fan of collaborations that span ‘traditional’ boundaries,

IT, tax avoidance and the total cost of ownership

The recent interest in “off payroll” taxation of individuals looks like it’s about to be trumped by the much more significant issue of “offshore” company taxation.

cybercrud and related issues

Paul Brown recently posted to the Computer Arts Society a copy of the 1970 catalogue “Software. Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art“. It includes

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

“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

data privacy visualised (6 years on….)

It’s over 6 years since I blogged about how the principles of Creative Commons might be applied to privacy and data protection, particularly to help

more detail on the draft principles for the UK identity assurance scheme

In my recent post draft principles for the UK identity assurance programme I said if people were interested, I could post more detail of the thoughts that