Gordon Brown Announces “Second Generation” Government

Posted by Benjamin Ellis in Monday, March 22nd 2010   

Topics: Technology    Tags: bbdf, DigitalBritain, gov 2.0, government

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Well, he didn’t say Gov 2.0, but he may as well have done. This morning UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced a sweeping set of changes to the way that technology is used in government. In a speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future, he was talking about digital technology’s role in a plan to secure recovery, growth [...]

Open Data Opens Up Gov

Posted by Benjamin Ellis in Thursday, January 21st 2010   

Topics: Technology    Tags: gov 2.0, government, opendata

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Today sees the launch of data.gov.uk. Over the last few months I’ve had some privileged peaks behind the scenes, and I’m very excited to see it all now live. The front paragraphs on the site put it well: Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government are opening up data for [...]

Social Decision Making – Shirky JP and Democracy

Posted by Benjamin Ellis in Tuesday, February 10th 2009   

Topics: communication, marketing    Tags: clay shirky, decision making, democracy, government, JP Rangaswami, nesta, social software, twitter

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This is the second post on Clay Shirky’s talk at LSE, looking at some of the same issues raised, but in the context of decision making and crowd sourced wisdom. I hinted at some of my thoughts in the previous post (Mass Collaboration Snow Joke), and JP has also blogged about it, based on Clay [...]