Archive for the “Government” category
Where has all the GOV stuff gone?
By Nick Holmes on February 2, 2015
Reblogged from Legal Web Watch January 2015 Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox, first mooted the idea of a single government website back in 2010. Some thought the theory was sound but that delivery would be impossible. Once the project was (…)
Justice going digital (2)
By Nick Holmes on July 18, 2013
You can view the progress of development of GOV.UK’s 25 digital exemplar services, of which 4 are the MoJ projects shown above, from the Digital Transformation dashboard. The Government Digital Strategy and Departmental Digital Strategies commit us to the redesigning (…)
Justice going digital
By Nick Holmes on July 10, 2013
Whatever you may feel about some of the cost-saving justice changes afoot, there’s no doubt that the government’s “digital by default” strategy will both help achieve some of the savings they crave and deliver better services. The Justice Secretary in (…)
Justice on the move
By Nick Holmes on June 13, 2013
Interested in access to justice? You bet. I’m not talking here about the withdrawal of legal aid though I urge you to follow #savukjustice and sign the petition if you have not already done so. What I’m referring to is (…)
Simpler, clearer, faster (maybe)
By Nick Holmes on April 18, 2013
So the the GOV.UK site from the Government Digital Service won the Designs of the Year 2013 award. This is proving to be somewhat divisive: FOR are those designers who appreciate its “agile, user-centred design” AGAINST are those who like (…)
What’s up GOV?
By Nick Holmes on January 31, 2013
Have you visited GOV.UK yet? If you’ve recently used any government service you will probably have been directed to GOV.UK. On 17 October 2012 it replaced Directgov and Business Link as the place to go for government services. And on (…)
Rough Justice – not so Gov 2.0
By Nick Holmes on April 6, 2011
Who is Stephen Walter Pollak? [No relation to Charon QC’s post on BBC’s Rough Justice] A long time ago in a land far, far away I reported that under the 2006 Cabinet Office “Transformational Government Strategy” at least 550 government (…)
Sleeves rolled up
By Nick Holmes on May 13, 2010
To gauge how on the ball these ConDems are, I did a quick trawl around the Gov dept sites which reveals that … Most departments haven’t had time to do anything but post a rather ominous message along the lines (…)
Crown Commons
By Nick Holmes on January 26, 2010
With the launch of the data.gov.uk beta website – providing access to over 2,500 central government datasets – comes a new licensing model for government information which it is intended will be launched government-wide by the end of May 2010 (…)
Towards Gov 2.0
By Nick Holmes on July 14, 2008
Democracy – as Abraham Lincoln famously defined it – is the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Hitherto, we’ve been able to exercise our democratic rights only at the ballot box, by lobbying our MP (…)
Unlocking the power of information
By Nick Holmes on July 10, 2008
As regular readers will know, one of my pet subjects is unlocking the power of public sector information, and I’ve actively campaigned for it as it relates to legal information. The ball is now really rolling on this with the (…)
Consultations aggregator
By Nick Holmes on April 14, 2008
Just came across Tell Them What You Think, an extremely handy site which aggregates government consultations and enables you to: search all current government consultations for words and phrases browse all latest consultations by department set up alerts via email (…)
They’re working for us (dot org)
By Nick Holmes on March 26, 2008
The folks at mySociety are really moving on Society 2.0. mySociety is a charity which builds natty Web 2.0 sites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. It also aims to teach (…)
Who’s driving Gov 2.0?
By Nick Holmes on March 14, 2008
We’re fortunate to have a new encumbent as Minister for Transformational Government at the Cabinet Office who really gets it – Westminster über-blogger, Tom Watson. His vision is encapsulated in his recent speech at the Transformational Government Event. And his (…)
Our data should be free
By Nick Holmes on March 14, 2008
A long-awaited private study by Cambridge University into the pricing of public sector information (PSI) by trading funds (Ordnance Survey, Met Office, Companies House, Land Registry et al) was published on the side with the 2008 Budget Report. The study (…)
