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Category Archives: IT-E-government

E-Government comes to the fore

A few developments appear to be bubbling up in E-Government, starting with the Adam Smith Institute publishing a report critical of UK efforts to date: “The UK’s e-government strategy is fragmented and producer driven, says Andrew Lomas, and will never deliver its full potential benefits to the public. By contrast, tiny Estonia has re-thought its [...]

Posted 07 January 2006 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Tony’s Tea

Just came across this interesting snippet on Kablenet on Tony Blair’s webcast..

Posted 04 January 2006 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Transformational Government IT strategy

There’s promising proposals in ‘Transformational Government’ for small innovative suppliers, despite explicit mention of their potential contribution being dropped from the draft..

Posted 14 December 2005 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

The Brazilian connection

I had a very pleasant journey back to London in the company of Nicholas Wood-Dow who was at the conference to promote open source software..

Posted 26 November 2005 † Stuart § Brazil § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

eAccessibility’s 70% failure rate

The last session titled ‘No Citizen Left Behind’ focused on the complex issues of exclusion from e-services, a feature of all EU states..

Posted 25 November 2005 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Time for the E-Government Conference

Now that I’m sort of recovered from last night’s footie and post-match drinks, I’m here to distill some highlights from the E-gov conference..

Posted 24 November 2005 † Stuart § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Simple AND complex

Looking at the project focus and listening to the talk at yesterday’s complex science meeting, the focus of the EPSRC project is on the large scale..

Posted 11 November 2005 † Stuart § Complexity § IT-NPfIT § IT-Usability § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °