These are my links for June 16th through June 19th: Helpful Technology – New Ministry new website – From idea to live site took less than 72 hours, including signoffs – a thoroughly enjoyable collaboration between former DIUS and BERR people, led by Neil. The Guardian’s tool to crowdsource MPs’ expenses data: time to play …
Digbeth formally called Birmingham's Digital District
Whenever a minister comes to call it pays to have something to announce, so later today Birmingham City Council’s deputy leader Paul Tilsley will tell Lord Carter that: I am pleased to announce that Birmingham will create a ‘Digital District’ that brings together the innovative, learning and creative sectors enabled through a next generation hi …
"Government of the web, not just on the web" Digital Britain Report
“Government of the web, not just on the web” is a critical sentence in today’s Digital Britain report. Digital Britain is udoubtedly wide ranging, but if you’re interested in how the internet affects how we gover ourselves then you’ll want to skim through the Executive Summary (pdf -why?) until you hit point 74 and then …
Stuff I've seen June 15th through June 16th
These are my links for June 15th through June 16th: Digital Britain – final report – The Digital Britain Final Report is one of the central policy commitments in the Government's Building Britain's Future plan and draft legislative programme. Building Britain's Future sets out the practical action we will take to build a stronger, fairer …