Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The big society – meeting at Downing Street For me, as an old Whitehall hand (my day job before talk about local) this was the first time the coalition thing has really sunk in. It was remarkable to see two leaders of different political parties sit [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Gov 2.0 in Australia This showcase has been set up to collate and create a gallery of Australian Government innovation in the Gov 2.0 space, from which others can learn. Once a few submissions have been received and verified, we will publish a gallery of case [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Will Plug-In Vehicles Be Obsolete Before They Are Profitable? — Seeking Alpha Given the change I’ve lived through, I have a hard time putting much faith in anyone who believes 10 to 25 year forecasts are possible, much less reliable. There is simply no way to [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Government on the web: the next revolution Seventeen years ago this month, I set up the first British government website. I was a young economist at the UK Treasury, and I thought the budget documents should be available online. I proposed this to the Treasury Management [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Marginal Revolution: One Game Machine Per Child Beginning at the top left we see that households with incomes just below the cutoff were much more likely to have a computer than households with incomes just above the cutoff – thus the voucher program has a big [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web The World of GovCraft « Carl’s Notepad I started to think about how Government in general could be seen as a game so that we could not only engage people in the problems and challenges we all face but actually inspire them to be part of [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Ceci n’est pas une pipe I know that digital inclusion is not a magic bullet but equally I do not believe that digital inclusion is a means of doing the same thing but doing it for less cost. I know that there needs to be a [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Social Innovator We have created Social Innovator to bring together the people, experience and issues involved in designing, developing and growing new ideas that meet pressing unmet needs. This material is intended to guide and support the practice of all those who can contribute to this [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Events Leading to the Resignation of Mr Heath’s Administration on 4 March 1974 At 6.25 p.m. the Prime Minister left 10 Downing Street for Buckingham Palace. I went with him; and on the drive we neither of us said a word. There was so much, or [...]
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web Silver Bullets: Mapping digital exclusion If we enclose as many points of social and digital exclusion as we can, by making a very big assumption we can guess where a digital inclusion initiative might have an impact. Let’s take a silver surfers club, a social media [...]