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How can the state simultaneously cut budgets, provide better services, and promote growth? “By adopting an Open Government mindset”.
All truth passes through three stages, said the philosopher Schopenhauer. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Just over a week ago the Financial Times paraphrased the formula I have been … Continue reading
Posted in Public Services
Tagged Open Government, Open Source Government, Post-Bureaucratic Age, Procurement
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The Government can save millions, but only if it is open to having open IT procurement processes
This Tuesday (15th March) the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) held its second evidence session as part of it’s Inquiry into the Government’s use of IT. It is beginning to seem like open season on ‘the Government’s use of IT’, … Continue reading
Let’s make ‘Open Source Government’ happen
Monday 21st February 2011 saw the first ‘Open Source System Integrators Forum’ held by the Cabinet Office and I’d like to share a few modest bits of news with you all. The event is perhaps the first bloomings of the … Continue reading
Moving the Big Society forward
This morning I went to the Big Society Network’s Cameron Direct on the Big Society. It was a great event, well-organised, good questions (though a couple of plants…) and generally fun. A few things that struck me during the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Society
Tagged Accountability, Big Society, Campaigning, Communication, Conservatism, Democracy, Funding, Living in Britain, Localism, Making a Difference, Mutuals, Philanthropy, Post-Bureaucratic Age, Public services, Re-engaging Voters, Responsibility, Social Mobility, Society, Transparency
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Notes from a Big Society Romantic
I want to start this post by declaring an interest. Indeed it is a special interest. I love the concept of the Big Society. Unequivocally love it. Striving to build better, stronger more vibrant communities is a supremely noble political … Continue reading