Here’s a summary and links to my last few CIO columns of 2015. Looking forward to what 2016 brings. Service design thinking December 2015. The use
CIO roundup
Here’s a summary, with links to the full pieces, of some of my recent CIO columns: Data-enabled service design October 2015 The chorus of people
online citizen accounts
The idea of an online government account where we can see everything in one place has been kicking around since the late 1990s and the
A (brief) history of UK Government moves towards a platform-based architecture
The vision — 1998 onwards There’s been a long-standing vision to use technology in a way that doesn’t fossilise the old paper-based way of running the public
digital leaders TV discussion
BBC Click’s Kate Russell hosted myself, Mark Thompson and Alan Brown on a recent episode of Digital Leaders TV. Our topic? How to understand and implement new
(continued) more thoughts on government in the digital age
On the back of the launch of our new book, Digitizing Government, I posted a few background thoughts in my previous blog — very imaginatively
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
