Features
Translating data into delivery: the Power of Information
While it may be that the Geeks shall inherit the Earth, you will have to forgive me for thinking that government would never be conquered. Arcane IT systems, technophobes as far as the eye can see and one data breach after another, it appeared that there was little hope the government geek looking to rewire the red tape and truly transform government through tech.
But no! The once small and closed community of government techies appears to be growing and opening up with geeks popping up in high places, Invasion of the Body Snatchers style. Driven in no small part by the appointment of “IT enthusiast and blogging pioneer among MPs” Tom Watson to the role of Cabinet Office Minster for Transformational Government in January 2008, the profile and priority of all thing geeky has rocketed in what has been a pretty tech unsavvy government thus far.
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FutureGov future events»Having had a relatively quiet time of it recently on the event front (well for me anyway!), I thought it worth a short post to let you all know where I will be over the next 3 weeks as things are getting rather hectic again.
Videos
New public sector agenda - Charlie Leadbeater speaks to Barnet Council»As a quick follow up to my last post on the future of London government, I thought I would share a video made available today by the London Borough of Barnet on YouTube (quite an innovation in itself I say!).
Interviews
Local outlook: what to expect»Over coming months, this section will be dedicated to conversations with leading figures in the public, private and voluntary sectors about the future direction of local government, the demands that are likely to be placed on it in coming years and how it will work with its partners and customers to change the way it works to better meet the needs of the people it serves.
