given the recent theft of my identity while it was being ste warded82 21 by countrywide i feel especially motivated to share with you this important piece on contactpointaby sir bonar nevillekingdom gcmg kcvo that appeared in britains ideal government .aa sir bonar writes im facing a blizzard of freedom of information requests from the selfappointed and frank......
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ive been putting a bit of work in updating the public sector bloggers site which aggregates a load of feeds from folk in the public sector who blog duh 8230 in one place. the website gives a quick overview on the latest additions or you can subscribe to a combined rss feed or by email . one thing i have changed is how the feed is generated. before i used yahoo pipes t......
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arch members will know that we have put in a freedom of information request for the full security review of contactpoint following publication of the executive summary so far without success. our internal appeal has now been rejected and so its onwards and upwards to the information commissioner and probably the information tribunal. amongst other things the rejection notice s......
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absurd call for public sector to embrace web 2.0 the ideal government project i should first point out that own whitehall it managers are thoroughly superior to their counterparts in local government. this is simply because any good it manager would naturally rather come and work in whitehall just as the university applicant who could get to oxbridge would hardly choose loughborough.......
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someone kindly enquired what i was up to nowadays. i had to think quite hard. apart from family stuff i think its in alphabetical order trying to find somewhere to live as a shared co housing8 221 project. this is ambitious brings together social legal planning living and spiritual threads. plus i want it to earn its keep. weve appointed an excellent sea......
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sir bonar has been fulminating on the contactpoint launch delay over at idealgovernment. the decision not to release any information about the contactpoint security review was taken by an independent panel. i personally chaired ths panel to ensure its independence from any outside interests. i was of course not directly involved in the original requests which were handled by a junior sta......
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i wouldnt normally comment on politics but today i was prompted into posting a rant which ive had brewing for a while. whilst catching up on my blog subscriptions i read cory doctorows post concerning this podcast interview with sir bonar nevillekingdom im certain that this is satire but the fact that i had to do some checking and many other people are tak......
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by strange coincidence this morning i came across two letters written to a bank manager and the uk passport office. they both where written as a response by a real or imagined person to inefficiency disrespect and abuse of power that such entities exercise over the individual. as customers we have little if any redress for such treatment. and this shows in the letters their humour......
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its been a long long day but at least i got to watch the final episode of dr who when i got home. i wasnt as inspired by the talks as other people seem to have been the ones i attended seemed reasonably prosaic although i did make a couple of notes to follow up on later. i think this means i need to change the criteria i use for choosing which talks i go to. the social a......
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on thursday night i was lucky enough to be invited to number 11 for a few drinks with various online luminaries including a bunch of guys who went on web mission 08 and lots of lovely government webbies too courtesy of tom watson the minister for doing fun things with the web. william heath describes some of the oddities of the evening on the ideal government blog . one of the cool peo......
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heres what i tagged on del.icio.us between july 4th and july 5th folke koebberling and martin kaltwasser amphis at wysing arts centre worth a visit slashdot working towards an ecofriendly fireworks display heavy metals toxic chemicals pretty colours in the sky virgin bpi at odds as first infringement letters go out typical incompetence and stupidity from virgin......
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...rent state of public opinion on some of our favourite issues. despite benjamin franklins famous advice the public seems happy to trade a little liberty for a little security. httpwww .idealgove rnment.com index.php blogoh w ell i wasn t using my civil lib erties any way please send me any items of interest you encounter editor newsletter no2id.net ......
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brilliant lisbon poster hack . expect it robbed by a daily newspaper and not attributed. belated happy birthday oftr . the clip of the kid. scary. via sean osullivan slides pack 1 pack 2 pack 3 from the recent telco 2.0 event in dublin. a book thingy for those that read books yeah that niche market. career 2.0 six business starting tips. youch. a ......
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heres me on youtube taiwan trying to add the oxford research groups insights into the ibm gio deep dive agenda does this do it justice will it work im greatly encouraged to see it on the ibm gio blog anyway i was beginning to get worried after we didnt ask this question during the session and i also got zero replies to it by email from the participants unlike the......
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the atlassian blog confluence 2.8 gets a facelift tags confluence wiki seven wiki adoption techniques for the enterprise smalls blogger tags wiki adoption socialtext putting a little social into...enterprise wikis tags socialtext wiki prediction markets crowd intelligence an interview with oscarwinning d......
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over at idealgov i posted a briefing list about a forthcoming security and society event. ive had some really helpful feedback from fipr and friends house. i especially like the look of this oxford research group which of course uses the same acronym as our own open rights group. heres a great short paper on oxford research group briefing on t......
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the ideal government project picked up by the idealgov concealed microphones at a recent cio meeting spoken it would seem by the senior responsible officer for spending a25m a year of taxpayers money on nhs choices you should see this other site... tags patientopinion nhs nhschoices movable type 4.15 beta 1 now available ......
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i see that a few people have been on the site as a result of this post about owen barder. i guess they were interested in the civil serf blog which got splashed in the papers and has now disappeared from view. i was a reader and noticed that itd gone at some point over the weekend after noting that shed become a regular read of a number of journalists.a as with owen t......
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meanwhile in the murky and dangerous identityregister realms jacqui smith is announcing some changes to the scheme namely noneu immigrants will need them to register this year sens itivequot airport jobworkers thats a sensitive job not a sensitive worker will need to register next year students will be able to opt in to registration in 2010 people can choose......
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williams marvellous setting of barack obamas gracious and powerful losing new hampshire speech available on youtube moved me to post to idealgov. not sure if there was a deeper point about pertinent art the web and the political process but i just loved the extraordinary power rhythm and lyricism of his oratory. those who prefer the prospect of an obama presidency to ......
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william heath thinks people should read the text of the speech that rowan williams has been so heavily critcised over because he is prepared to talk in public about difficult subjects and with a deep understanding of the complexities of the real world. people diss rowan williams but he spelt out years ago why customer was such an unsatisfactory term for the active participant in se......
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over at idealgov were running a competition for expressions about how public services could be better. i love this one from ivo gormley the experience people on the tube are silent but they get very close to me. maybe they are very interesting and perhaps they are thinking about the same things as me. we might have an interesting debate maybe we both want to talk about fo......
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thinkpublic and ideal government invite everyone to help design better public services in a new competition called mind the gap. its a collaboration between thinkpublics the real work experience programme for design graduates and ideal governments wib bipedia8 221 programme to collect ideas about how public services could be better.......
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universities are facing a tough time. are they for extending knowledge or for training people up so that they can get jobs in an adva nced economy the former harks back to the original definition of acad emic while the latter juggles with the idea of prac ticalityq uot. but there are compromises to be made especially when a sense of economic efficiency watches over ......
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the ideal government project has the best explanation of burnhamspeak ever . read it read it read it. hmm. burn hamspeakq uot is a horrible word there must be something catchier than that out there......
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