In a world of increasingly open government data, who is going to create the services? Brian Hoadley has a powerful go at the answer: Those who campaign for the release of Government data seem to fall into a few major camps: Those who want more access to information because it will inform their work – [...]
If the people who read this blog are the sort of people I think read this blog, few will have paused over the title of this post. For better or worse, people who read this are people who are comfortable in an online world. They will shop online, bank online, talk to their friends online, [...]
Organisations cannot learn not to be surprised by the future. They can learn not to be surprised that they are surprised by the future. Paraphrased from comments by Ian Livingston.
Yesterday’s my Public Services conference, organised by the redoubtable Patient Opinion, started with an arresting analogy from James Munro. It is well known that the iron bridge of Ironbridge was the first of its kind in the world. It was less well known (at least to me), that it was assembled as if the pieces [...]
It was a mistake to have breakfast with William Heath. In his charming way, he took one of my long-held ideas, held it up to the light, and found it wanting. Worse still – and equally characteristically – the challenge was as powerful as it was simple. I have argued for some time that there [...]
This time next year, it will be difficult to tell the difference between a website and a mobile application. Premasagar Rose, quoting an unnamed participant at Over the Air
As expected, there is now a video of Howard Rheingold’s Reboot Britain presentation – scroll down the thumbnails on the right, his is the last one (though there is lots of good stuff along the way worth being diverted by). I haven’t watched the whole thing yet, but have seen enough to confirm my suspicion [...]
If the past is a foreign country, how much more so the future. There have been endless articles – to say nothing of entire books – about the digital generation, but few of them in my experience really bring the differences to life. I was struck by a piece danah boyd has just written which [...]
Months can go by without encountering a single guru, then before you know it, three come along in a single week (actually there were more, but they were so thick on the ground that some I merely brushed past on staircases, rather than hearing them speak). Second of the three was Howard Rheingold, famous as [...]
I have mixed feelings about a day spent at Reboot Britain. I am glad I went: I saw some interesting material and had some interesting conversations. But I also found it quite frustrating. The event as a whole seemed perpetually to be on the verge of breaking into a rich discussion, but it never quite [...]