An online notebook
Despite being a pseudo-statistician startupper, I was fortunate enough to meet a few readers of this blog at LocalGovCamp. Martin Greenwood’s giving a long keynote – 30 minutes – on the role of websites in providing local services. Here’s my notes. When you phone your council out-of-hours, you’ll get a phone message. In December 2007, … Keep reading
This session’s chaired by Dominique Lazanski, alongside Hamish Nicklin from Google, Nominet‘s Phil Kingsland, Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group and Phillip Virgo from EURIM. They start with a question from the chair: How does Government regulation help, or hinder, the growth of the digital economy in the UK? Phil Kingsland replies first, with … Keep reading
Tom Steinberg of mySociety follows Adam Afriyie with the last keynote of the morning session. He starts with an announcement – that, with the Open Society Institute, mySociety are seeding similar organisations in Central and Eastern Europe – and a disclaimer: that his new advisory position with the Conservatives will not influence mySociety. After that, … Keep reading
Onto the last two talks before lunch! First up, Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation, Adam Afriyie. He confesses straight away that he would keep closely to his notes — for fear of getting the sack. Of course, this is a campaign speech, and the opening is an attack on Labour’s record on government IT … Keep reading
Iain Dale, Mick Fealty, Stephen Tall, Craig Elder from the Conservative Party and Adam Parker from Realwire kicked off the blogger session at Government 2010 with five minutes each. Here’s something on each of those! Mick went first: To state the bleedin’ obvious, there is a sea-change ahead. Mick observed that, thus far, the Internet … Keep reading