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Caught between a Musk and a hard place
Following the diktats of the MemeMan gets much harder under the harsh eye of parliamentary scrutiny.
GDS
Is the GDS a revolutionary success in online government - or a trendy disaster?
The Register has run a pretty brutal hatchet job on the Government Digital Service [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/18/the_inside_story_of_govuk/], which has, up until now, received pretty much universal acclaim. This is from a section on the visa and immigration website transition: >
The Open Ordnance Survey: lessons learned
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/ian.jpg] Ian Holt [https://twitter.com/#!/IanHolt], senior developer programme manager at Ordnance Survey [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/] Two years ago the OS was asked to release mapping data as open data for the first time. They
Tom Steinberg: how to open the data people actually want
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/04/tom.jpg] Tom Steinberg [http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/], founder and director of mySociety [http://www.mysociety.org/] mySociety is a charitable enterprise that exists to make people more powerful by giving them access to democratic process – like being
data
#media140 : Dataeconomy: Open Data
(Live-blogging – prone to error, omission and typos…) Rufus Pollock from Open Knowledge Foundation Wouldn’t it be nice to know where our money goes when we pay taxes? You need lots of stuff – government spending (local and regional), region codes, company data… Much of it locked up or in difficult
defra
Things DEFRA Has Lost
A video knocked up by the Farmers Weekly [http://www.fwi.co.uk/] team with my Flip Mino… UPDATE: And here’s the story [http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/10/13/112622/video-defra-loses-20979-cows-and-a-toaster.html] that explains it.
civil servants
Civil Servants Told To Shred Reports
So, what would be the sensible government approach to repeated revelations that IT projects have gone wrong? An internal investigation? Some changes of management? How about bringing in outside experts to manage the mess? No. They order civil servants to shred documents. [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2007/