More thoughts on the IT strategy

Forward-thinking in all but title sees some comments in the Guardian about the IT Strategy for government. Somewhat predictably, each commentator cleaves to their own background, rather than looking at it as a whole.

e-Innovations goes Wiki

Always strange to see a thing that I’m responsible for pop up in the news: e-Innovations goes Wiki says we’re first, so that must be innovative? Sorry to anyone else who has done this before (and there must be many examples).

Challenging

E-government awards off target sees a journalist sniffing around the Digital Challenge. Let’s hope it gets launched soon!

Less e than the Pope?

We’re less e-enabled than the Pope, according to a Brown University study. [PDF links, by the way]We’re also weren’t doing so well in terms of business use of e-Government services back in 2004.[Update: apparently our paper systems are very mature;...

The Politics of Community

The Politics of Community summarises some recent thinking on communities and engagment. Looks like we might have some impact on this through e-Democracy, Shared Services and e-Innovations.

e-Government PQ and debate

A PQ answer saying nothing about e-Government or its benefits. Not even prefiguring the move to t-government?Here’s a more substantive debate around e-Government. Amazing to see what MPs discuss in these debates.