An online notebook
Interesting news item this morning on eGov monitor: A new £4 million programme to help local authorities tackle climate change was announced by Environment Minister Phil Woolas and Local Government Minister John Healey today. The programme will spread existing best practice on climate change among local authorities, and provide training and mentoring to help them … Keep reading
I, like Nick Booth and presumably countless others, got an email from someone called Rohan Silva today, who has an @parliament email address. Rohan writes: I thought you might be interested in how Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson‘s speech yesterday on new technologies and the internet “mashed up” Conservative Party policies, speeches and ideas from … Keep reading
Tom Watson, the Cabinet Office minister for web stuff, has been busy, first of all giving a speech on Government 2.0: Driving through the cultural change in all our communications that sees the internet, mobile and other new media as the norm ensuring better innovation and much faster implementation. Build stuff small, test it out … Keep reading
Interesting report published by Quocirca on behalf on IBM, on the topic of the opportunities web 2.0 and social media offers the public sector: Social networking can help public sector bodies interact to a far greater extent with citizens as well as with internal and external resources. Full policies are required to be put in … Keep reading
The Economist has published an interesting article on “Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly fails”: Why is government unable to reap the same benefits as business, which uses technology to lower costs, please customers and raise profits? The three main reasons are lack of competitive pressure, a tendency to reinvent the wheel … Keep reading