Comments on: Gordon Brown Announces “Second Generation” Government

By: Gordon Brown Announces “Second Generation” Government | MUSKET

Gordon Brown Announces “Second Generation” Government | MUSKET — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:44:59 +0000

[...] From PM’s speech today (”Building Britain’s Digital Future” – see http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page22897) “Today I can announce the first funding for the next stage of this research - 30m pound- to support the creation of a new institute, the institute of web science – based here in Britain and working with government and British business to realise the social and economic benefits of advances in the web. More details will be found http://redcatco.com/blog/technology/gordon-brown-announces-second-generation-government/ [...]

By: JimAnning (Jim Anning)

JimAnning (Jim Anning) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:20:00 +0000

Summary of PM’s building Britains digital future talk from @BenjaminEllis http://bit.ly/aOF89Q

By: Gordon Rae

Gordon Rae — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:39:33 +0000

It seems very positive, but what does ‘digital engagement functionality’ mean? Was this explained?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:59:56 +0000

Good questions and comments William. Much to digest! The full transcript is here on the number 10 site.

By: William

William — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:25:31 +0000

Terrific summary Benjamin, and very prompt.

Much of the rhetoric seems to make sense. But the e-gov rhetoric made sense 10 years ago. It’s all down to delivery.

Clearly TBL/MLF are doing good things, but

- there’s insufficient sign yet gov understands that the problems with personal data need VRM-type solution
- there’s still massive disconnect between real world needs and the platform that procured government IT offers

It’s all getting better though!