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Cabinet Office Open Standards Consultation
The current Open Standards consultation being run by the Cabinet Office is of great significance for the future of public service architecture within the UK. Go and register your opinion now! Please...
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New Cambridge Open Standards & Innovation Group
This November a small group of us are launching a new research group located within Cambridge University’s Centre for Public Policy. It’s called the Open Platforms and Innovation...
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An important landmark
Following a four-month consultation exercise, Cabinet Office has finally been able to formally adopt an Open Standards technology policy across UK government. This is an enormously significant landmark...
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What is ‘vanilla’ and why is it important?
Almost all of our public services depend upon ICT to function. Yet much of the technology that underpins these services has been developed over many years, repeatedly modified and updated to reflect...
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We’re still so C19
www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2228520/government-it-no-longer-19th-century-but-improvements-still-needed Denise McDonagh’s right (above) that public sector ICT has improved, but we still suffer from a...
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The Government’s Stockholm Syndrome
The Government’s Stockholm Syndrome Come on, everybody. Isn’t it about time we accepted government’s mesmerisation by some of its key suppliers, and discussed it openly?
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Overview of the #localgov platform
Reblogged from Martin Howitt's blog: In a previous post I covered some aspects of why local government could be considered a platform business, or at least could move in that direction. I'm enormously...
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The Great Deverticalisation: Computer Weekly Series
The Great Deverticalisation: Computer Weekly Series Jerry Fishenden and I are doing a 5-part series on ‘The Great Deverticalisation’ for Computer Weekly, in a comprehensive attempt to Take the Message...
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The “Great Deverticalisation”
The Great Deverticalisation What is ‘deverticalisation’? And how can the public sector benefit? My new podcast, above, tries to answer these and other related questions… Video here:...
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Development 2.0 and Beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013
Development 2.0 and Beyond: Challenges for ICT4D in 2013 What can the field of ‘development’ learn from recent developments around Open standards within the UK public sector? In this webcast I explore...
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The Open Organization
Some thoughts on combining upstream & downstream Open innovation within an ‘Open Organization’
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Digital Government: Why Gartner is writing nonsense
I read something very worrying today: a post by Andrea DiMaio – a “Vice President and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research”, who argues that “digital government is little else than making...
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Labour and Tories: Digital Manifesto thoughts from the Party Conferences
Labour and Tories: Digital Manifesto thoughts from the Party Conferences Great progress, much further to go: some observations about each party’s positions on Digital government from the recent party...
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Local government business models will eventually look a lot more like Google, with councils at the hub of an ecosystem of different service providers assembling standard services around residents like...
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Don’t politicise Digital! An appeal before the manifesto season gets underway
Don’t politicise Digital! An appeal before the manifesto season gets underway Use of open standards and platforms is something that should be supported equally by both political parties
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