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Many politicians take as a given the fact that broadband is a necessity for economic development. Craig Settles in a piece in Government Technology considers the role of this is the round in the US and presents what he believes are surprising findings – ’8 Surprising Findings About the Broadband Economy (Opinion)’. The report is a review... [read more]
Appearing coincidentally near the launch of the UK Government Data Service is the release of a report from the National Audit Office on the topic of ‘Digital Britain One: Shared infrastructure and services for government online’. The report is essentially a review of the three key government websites – Directgov, Business.gov and... [read more]
Having written previously about the downside of the government's decision to scrap the Co-ordinated Online Register of Electors (CORE), it is worth mentioning a report published today by the Commons political and constitutional reform committee. The bulk of the report looks at issues related to individual voter registration,... [read more]
I’ve written quite a few posts regarding the value of both ‘cloud’ and ‘open source’ computing in government service. However, a recent comment I saw elsewhere suggested that ‘cloud’ computing retained many of the issues of ‘proprietary’ software, and that whilst ‘open source’ should be welcomed, ‘cloud’ shouldn’t. With the UK... [read more]
Almost 12 months ago Greater Manchester Police in England carried out a 24 hour ‘tweetathon’ to highlight what the police were faced with on a daily basis. At that time we didn’t realise how crucial that work was going to be to the future communication the Force carries out. The work in October 2010 signified a change in the way the... [read more]
The government today announced that it was scrapping the implementation of the Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors. CORE would have standardised local electoral registers to make them fully interoperable, with a new set of data standards covering the storage of the voter's key details. It had been a long-running saga, with £... [read more]
Prime minister David Cameron is today writing to cabinet ministers to set out latest government proposals on open data. His letter says he remains committed to "the most ambitious open data agenda of any government in the world". "If our transparency focus over the past 12 months has been to open up core central government data in areas... [read more]
I’ve been managing, albeit slowly, to catch up on the many blogs, documents, videos etc I’ve saved for “later” (the joy of owning an iPad in my view). Anyway I was very interested in this webinar that was funded by Janrain and Badgeville that the Altemeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang gave some excellent insights into... [read more]
Catalyzing innovation and adding more transparency to government through the release of open data is an issue that should rise about partisan politics. At least, that was the message that Nigel Shadbolt, an advisor to the United Kingdom, delivered at a conference in Bilbao, France yesterday. Shadbolt’s presentation on how they did data.... [read more]
In the United States, government agencies like the FCC have launched open government websites in beta. In the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom is rolling back one more version and seeking alpha. Alpha.gov.uk is an experimental prototype of a new, single website for government in the United Kingdom that the Government Digital Service... [read more]
The Government Digital Service have launched a very early prototype of their unified Government services website, which is set to replace Directgov. The alpha site is designed to attract feedback in order to inform further development and investment. The development team are also maintaining a blog to set out their thinking and... [read more]
The UK government has been continuing its experiments in crowdsourcing at redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk. The site invites the public (although the actual audience is likely to be those with some particular expertise) to comment on rules, regulations and laws of various sorts and to suggest which 'red tape' should be scrapped. As... [read more]
On Localgov.co.uk there’s a piece by Charles Leadbeater on the need for innovation in local services to both create savings, improve services and satisfy citizens. As a book-lover I’m not enamoured by some of his library examples, although I think some improvements can and are being made, but I don’t believe dumbing down always... [read more]
I just did an interview on the Daily Politics about public spending cuts - and why the government was actually finding it rather more difficult to curb spending than the rhetoric suggests. It is a mathematical fact that total public spending is actually set to rise from £669 Billion in the... [read more]
The rhetoric is all about tough action to restore sanity to our public finances. The maths suggests a different story. Far from cutting public borrowing, in February the public sector borrowed £11.8 Billion - the greatest amount the British state has borrowed in any February ever. If that was not bad... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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I understand that there's always a need to experiment for new design to make it better but they also keep in mind that the more they add details, the more they make it complicated. The CFPB, which opened up for business last summer, said Wednesday that it will next be going after loan providers ...
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Talking about transparency and actually doing it are two different things. It ...