These are my links for October 11th through October 19th: G-Cloud will save us £1.2 billion a year, says government CIO – ComputerworldUK.com – Also on procurement… “SMEs can’t afford to bid. In my opinion, that stifles innovation. Ordnance Survey Blog » GeoVation gets £150,000 funding boost – The funding will be used to support …
Blogging for the BBC on hyperlocal websites.
I’ve just started a blog for the BBC on hyperlocal websites. It emerged from a meeting which Will Perrin organised between local Birmingham bloggers, the BBC’s Head of English Regions David Holdsworth and Laura Ellis – both of whom had been my bosses when I was at the Beeb. We were discussing the best way …
Speed Data at Hello Digital Week – bring us a data problem please
On Thursday we’re running the second Speed Data event as part of the Hello Digital Conference. The first was held in April which brought together a wonderful range of people. That was a structured half day with a nice lunch – this time we have 90 minutes to run what I can best describe as …
Eric Pickles switches from local government targets to a list of data they should share
No great surprises in here, but a rough transcript of what Eric Pickles is saying: We don’t need to waste time defining localism, it will strangle it. Don’t salami slice, the old patterns of spencing wont return Put everything under the spotlight and ask we do we really need the money to do. Do we …