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- Details of government’s major projects revealed: press release
- Organisation: UK Cabinet Office, Published: 24 May 2013. Policies: Managing major projects more effectively. Minister: The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP. "Information about major projects underway by the government has been published for the first time... The Major Project Authority’s report identifies that despite significant progress since 2010 there are still weaknesses which require attention. Approaches to project management vary and decisions are often made in reaction to circumstances rather than as the result of effective planning. To address this, the government is introducing further reforms: - a standardised portfolio management system for departments to handle projects - a single online database to record successes and failures from past projects - The Major Projects Leadership Academy, launched with the University of Oxford’s Saϊd Business School and Deloitte, will trail everyone who leads a major project. - The lack of project-leadership skills is being addressed through the Civil Service Reform programme..."
Added: 27 May 2013;
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- Police tap social media in wake of London attack
- By Charis Palmer. IT News, May 23, 2013. "Tracking sentiment with software. A dedicated team of British police officers are monitoring social media around the clock in the wake of last night’s fatal attack on a soldier in the south-east of London, in order to gauge sentiment and be ready to respond. Umut Ertogral, who runs the Opensource Intelligence Unit for London’s Metropolitan Police Service, today told the AusCERT information security conference a team of 17 staff were working seven days a week to track social media feedback and monitor community tension..."
Added: 23 May 2013;
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- Open Standards Board - members and biographies
- Cabinet Office Standards Hub. Lists the board members and their biographies.
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- Open Standards Board sets the direction
- by Linda Humphries. Government Digital Service, 17 May 2013. "The first meeting of the newly formed Open Standards Board took place on Thursday last week (9 May). Liam Maxwell, the Government’s Chief Technology Officer, chaired the meeting writes Linda Humphries... The Open Standards Board agreed the process for how we should select open standards and appointed Nicholas Oughtibridge from the Health and Social Care Information Centre to chair a Data Standards Panel to advise the Board. They also agreed to use the assessment criteria proposed in the European Common Assessment Methodology for Standards and Specifications as a starting point for the criteria to be used by advisory panels and challenge owners when assessing challenge proposals..."
Added: 23 May 2013;
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- Rebalancing technology across government
- by Liam Maxwell. Government Digital Service, 21 May 2013. "Today we are releasing a further iteration of the Government Service Design Manual. We’ve updated this with more guidance for service managers and, for the first time, information for Chief Technology Officers on how government is rebalancing its approach to technology. Users need services that are genuinely agile and responsive to changing needs – where change reduces costs and risks rather than raising them and so making government more productive and our public services better. Our guiding principles for this change are simple: - focusing on user needs, ensuring that technology becomes so good that our colleagues, citizens and businesses want to use it - putting outcomes first; such as reductions in cost per transaction - using ‘openness’ to our advantage – open data, open standards, open source, open markets..."
Added: 23 May 2013;
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- Sign of the times: How Change.org and e-petitions have given campaigns new life
- By Aidan Radnedge, Metro, Thursday 16 May 2013. "Robert F Kennedy claimed that ‘one-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time’. Whereas The Simpsons’ writers were so fond of one declaration they variously had both Kent Brockman and Homer Simpson wonder: ‘When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn’t work.’ And yet Conservative cabinet ministers Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Gove appear to be competing in an (e-)voting contest of their own, even in this apparently apathetic nation. Work and pensions secretary Duncan Smith has the lead, for now, against his education secretary colleague/rival – that is, in being the subject of the most online petitions: 38 to 22. The running tally comes courtesy of Change.org, this week celebrating the first anniversary of the US-based firm setting up a specialist British operation..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- Internet Access Quarterly Update, Q1 2013
- Office for National Statistics, 15 May 2013. " Key Points: At Q1 2013, 43.5 million adults (86%) in the UK had used the Internet. 7.1 million adults (14%) had never used the Internet. Men (88%) were more likely to be Internet users than women (84%). By region, London had the highest rate of Internet users (90%); Northern Ireland the lowest (79%)...."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- Market Assessment of Public Sector Information - in pdf format (4870kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A report by Deloitte for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, May 2013. "This report has been produced by Deloitte between October 2012 and March 2013. The lead authors are Andrew Tong, Haris Irshad and Daniel Revell Ward... This is the first UK-wide market assessment of public sector information. It spans the use and reuse of public sector information at the UK-level, regionally and locally by a wide range of businesses, civil society groups, government and members of the general public. The aim of this market assessment is to establish a robust evidence base on its value and to highlight the policy implications flowing from an examination of how public sector information could be utilised further. The research has covered three broad thematic areas: - definitions of public sector information and its characteristics; - how public sector information is used and re-used inside and outside of government; and - barriers to fully exploiting the value of public sector information, including issues around competitiveness, funding and regulation..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- Shakespeare Review: An Independent Review of Public Sector Information - in pdf format (3243kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Stephan Shakespeare, CEO of YouGov, May 2013. "In October 2012, I was invited by government to lead an independent review of Public Sector Information (PSI) to explore the growth opportunities of, and how to widen access to, the wealth of information held by the public sector... The review considers the full breadth of the PSI market, both current and future. It deals with the private sector, civil society and general public use and re-use of public information as well as the potential benefits for how the public sector uses and re-uses its own data. The review covers the elements set out below and includes answers to the questions posed. The review establishes and takes stock of the current use and re-use of PSI within Government, making recommendations for improvements where appropriate. It will consider the current and anticipated future needs for Government given the current policy objectives across departments and wider public sector bodies as well as the opportunities and challenges presented by rapidly developing technology in the area. In addition to the stated terms of reference, I have identified a number of further strategic questions that I have considered in this review: - What types of PSI offer the greatest business opportunities? - What are the biggest obstacles for government in order to unlock PSI opportunities? - What might be done by Government to deal with any obstacles? ..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?
- Stephan Shakespeare, CEO of YouGov, has published his independent review into open government data in the UK. What's he said, what's he missed, and what will it mean? Posted by James Ball . The Guardian DataBlog, Wednesday 15 May 2013. "The UK is the world leader on open government data, according to YouGov CEO and Open Data Strategy Board chair Stephan Shakespeare, but needs to avoid being the "boffins ... we generate the excitement but don't mint the money". The finding is one of the core messages of The Shakespeare Review, a government-commissioned report on what should happen next with opening up government data for the benefit of government, business and (of course) citizens..."
Added: 16 May 2013;
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- Channel Shift: Speeding Up the Long Game
- Posted by Andy Price. Public Technology, PM Friday, 10 May 2013. "For many local government organisations, there is a gap between aspiration and reality when it comes to realising their channel shift programmes. They can see their ultimate goal of a self-service model for public interactions, and many organisations have already made headway in this by offering a select number of services online. But how should they extend these initial footings to build a solid foundation for pervasive online interaction? Simply offering online engagement to supplement telephone or face-to-face contact channels isn’t the ultimate objective. While this may realise some financial savings, it also runs the risk of simply offering another point of contact to the organisation, rather than delivering genuine ongoing benefits from transforming services..."
Added: 15 May 2013;
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- A Perspective on the Government Digital Strategy (GDS): Balancing agility and efficiency in UK Government IT delivery - in pdf format (650kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Draft, by Alan W. Brown, John A. McDermid, Ian Sommerville, Rob Witty, 7 January 2013. "The recent publication of the Government Digital Strategy (GDS) addresses 'how the government will become digital by default' and heralds the redesign all UK Government 'transactional services handling over 100,000 transactions per year'. The GDS is intended to play a fundamental role in defining how UK citizens will access the most critical government services. Although somewhat broad in scope, the principles and actions defined in the GDS appear to be underpinned by three key assumptions that form the heart of the way the GDS believes it can realize digitized services in practice. These are: 1. Use open source tools to reduce cost and break dependency on proprietary solutions; 2. Adopt agile methods to speed up delivery via an incremental stream of capabilities; 3. Encourage more SME participation to enhance innovation and flexibility. In this report we examine these principles with respect to delivery of the UK Government IT solutions, and provide an extensive commentary on how these principles should be interpreted to improve their impact and success. Based on the that commentary, we recommend enhancing the GDS as it stands with additional detail, an extended focus on clearer interpretation of those principles to help understand how to enact the principles, and deeper elaboration to emphasize several under-developed themes. We focus on four major recommendations..."
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- What Works: evidence centres for social policy
- UK Cabinet Office, March 2013. "A new initiative will build upon existing evidence-based policy making through launching a series of independent specialist centres. These will produce and disseminate research to local decision-makers, supporting them in investing in services that deliver the best outcomes for citizens and value for money for taxpayers..."
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- Cabinet Office celebrates major GOV.UK milestone
- Posted by Andy Price. Public Technology, 3 May 2013. "Following the move of the 24th and final ministerial department website across to the single GOV.UK domain earlier this week, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has commented on the savings and user-benefits the completed phase of the project will bring: - "I’m proud to welcome the online home of No.10 Downing Street to GOV.UK, our flagship website for government. - Our digital by default vision for government is all about having online public services which are so good that people will choose to use them – that’s how we will get ahead in the global race. At GOV.UK anyone can find out information about any Whitehall department, all in one place..."
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- David Cameron's No 10 Twitter messages deleted without being read
- More than 3,000 messages to David Cameron's official Number 10 Twitter feed are deleted without even being read every month, it has emerged. By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent. The Telegraph, 2 May 2013. "Direct messages intended for the Prime Minister's office are routinely ignored, even though aides reply to letters sent to Mr Cameron by mail. A Freedom of Information request about the @Number10gov Twitter feed reveals it gets 100 to 200 direct messages from Mr Cameron's followers every day..."
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This category last updated: 19 June 2013
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