While there are some great pockets of work taking place to deliver better public services, the UK government’s overall attempts at technology-enabled, or “e-government” or
Category: digital
Manifesto for Better Public Services
Last night at the Institute for Government, I helped launch the “Manifesto for Better Public Services”, along with an accompanying and much more detailed “Better
the inadequate scope of public sector “reform”
In the 1999 book “Reinventing Government”, information is placed at the centre of the government reform model: The rings identify multiple aspects that need to be addressed
improving data science ethics
Just over a year ago the UK’s data science ethical framework was put out for consultation. The purpose of the framework was to give civil
towards a “future society” book
“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral” – Melvin Kranzberg (1917-1995) A generation ago it was possible to work in an occupation
the identity / data divide
Proving who someone is online and letting them access their personal data – such as their tax, welfare, pension or medical records – often get
… the end of biometric security?
This piece on “Imitating people’s speech patterns precisely could bring trouble” in the Economist caught my eye. It mentions a new technology that means any voice—including
better use of data
I’ve been using the following simplified slides in briefings and discussions about “data sharing” and the “data sharing” provisions in the Digital Economy Bill. I thought
Escaping waterfall government and the myth of ‘digital transformation’
Writing with my colleague Cassian Young, in a new article in Computer Weekly we consider why an agile approach to digital programmes will not transform
“re-engineer government, abolish government departments”
Ed Vaizey MP, former minister at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), made the following comments in a recent interview: “I would completely re-engineer government.
dev, DevOps and trusted systems
Software’s coming home Software development and technical architecture design have been taken back in-house over the past 5 years – ending the era when Whitehall departments outsourced almost everything to
Uber, platforms and regulation
The employment tribunal ruling that Uber drivers have won the right to be classed as workers rather than self-employed is not particularly surprising when viewed from
