payday loans and the missed opportunity?

In our book Digitizing Government: understanding and implementing new digital business models, there’s a table illustrating how often grand announcements have been made around the

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

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

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

20 years of “online government” 101. Part 3: approaches to identity

This is part 3 in my occasional blog summarising the past 20 years or so of UK efforts to move government online. The previous parts

20 years of “online government” 101. Part 2: “e-government” architectures

This is the second part of an ongoing, occasional series looking back over the past 20 years or so of UK efforts to move government

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

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

inquiry into government IT

So today saw the first oral evidence session of the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee(PASC) inquiry into government IT. There were two panels