Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many reasons why anything new is bound to fail?
Original: https://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/can-government-stop-losing-its-mind
An online notebook
Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many reasons why anything new is bound to fail?
Original: https://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/can-government-stop-losing-its-mind
While there are some great pockets of work taking place to deliver better public services, the UK government’s overall attempts at technology-enabled, or “e-government” or “digital”, reform appear to be struggling to achieve and sustain the benefits promised at the pace and scale originally foreseen. And not for the first time – this has been a repeating cycle of optimism and disillusionment since the mid-1990s. So why is this?
Original: https://ntouk.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/the-wellsprings-of-uk-digital-reform-part-1-the-backstory/
I took a week off doing this last week – the shame! – so apologies for that*. A good crop this time round though. Enjoy!
As always, these have mostly all been tweeted during the week, and you can find everything I’ve found interesting and bookmarked here.
* although nobody complained…
Not sure anything in tech world can match politics right now for interestingness, but here goes…
https://www.slideshare.net/cote/transforming-government-agencies-into-cloudnative-organization-76730434
These have mostly all been tweeted during the week, and you can find everything I’ve found interesting and bookmarked here.
My friend and colleague Jason Caplin pointed out today that the LSE have open up the lectures for their undergraduate course on British government and how it all works.
It’s a fantastic resource, and great that they have shared this openly, as it’s something that would be of use to anyone working in and around government.
However, the formatting isn’t all that great and it doesn’t work brilliantly on mobile. Plus, there’s no ability for learners to ask questions, leave comments or discuss the topics.
So, I very quickly threw together a WordPress site to rehouse the videos, using a nice simple responsive theme and layout. I also enabled comments, so there’s a bit of a social element there as well.
I’d be really interested to know from folk if this has been a worthwhile endeavour, and if you make use of the site. Also, if you have any suggestions for improvement.
The site is at http://britgov.learninglabs.org.uk/
Happy learning!