government

Is the GDS a revolutionary success in online government - or a trendy disaster? Members Public

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: >

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GDS

The Open Ordnance Survey: lessons learned Members Public

[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

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government

Tom Steinberg: how to open the data people actually want Members Public

[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

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freedom of information

#media140 : Dataeconomy: Open Data Members Public

(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

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data

Things DEFRA Has Lost Members Public

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.

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defra

Civil Servants Told To Shred Reports Members Public

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/

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civil servants