India goes all electronic

Next LS elections only with EVMs discusses the recent decision for India to go all-electronic voting – they’ll need nearly a million voting machines. Astonishing.

OeE web guidelines

Thanks to headshift for the link to the OeE’s Web guidelines. I’ll be helping to produce a LAWs-based subset of these guidelines in the next few months, so I guess I better get reading.

Government should (be able to) ask for open source

El Reg runs a great article explaining that governments should (be able to) ask for open source solutions. This isn’t anti-competitive, quite the opposite. If Microsoft doesn’t want to bid on this kind of contract, then so be it.

CAB on intermediary working

The CAB has responded to the OeE’s intermediary consultation paper.Their three key areas are:common method of authenticationmaking and tracking claimsappearance and usability of online formsWe touch on two of these (not authentication) in LAWs. Joined-up...

Government e-service usage

Government Goes Online shows a strange disconnect between consumer sophistication and usage of government services online. The UK is low at 13% reach, which makes some sense, but to have South Korea at 23% is astonishing.