Public Sector IT
March 2009
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Meeting your company's targets - a one-sentence Sir Humphrey guide
31 Mar 2009 -
Why I'm opting out of e-records - chair, maternity association
30 Mar 2009 -
Why Downing St makes some ill-informed IT decisions?
30 Mar 2009
MPs on the House of Commons' Defence Committee have been trying to work out whether the Ministry of Defence has met its targets for 2007/8. And they're not quite sure. The secret of the MoD's ...
Beverly Beech, the chairwoman of the Association for Improvements in Maternity Services, has explained why she is opting out of the Summary Care Record, which is part of the NPfIT. She says that ...
There is nothing a government hates more than to be well-informed; for it makes theprocess of arriving at decisions much more complicated and difficult - John Maynard Keynes
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What happened to £161m on prisons IT? NAO isn't sure
26 Mar 2009 -
Banned list of council jargon - now staff face fines
26 Mar 2009 -
"I'm all for more government databases"
26 Mar 2009 -
Jargon and cliches that cost software staff money
25 Mar 2009 -
Database state - the evidence
23 Mar 2009 -
Government defends "red" light on ID Cards Gateway review
20 Mar 2009 -
Jargon ban - a hostile reaction by some in IT industry
20 Mar 2009
This is the full version of an article on ComputerWeekly.com Was record-keeping so poor it opened the door on anarchistic accounting practices and even a risk from potential corruption? Tucked away ...
The Local Government Association is asking its staff to pay fines if they use words or phrases on a banned list. The Association joins Original Software, which let me know earlier this week that it ...
It's not often anything to do with big government databases makes me smile but this comment to the IT Projects blog yesterday did... "As an out of work database developer, I'm all for more ...
When staff at Original Software use a cliché or jargon on the list below they pay a 20p fine to charity. It's a good idea, and charities would benefit if lots of other companies did the same. The ...
An important report was published on 23 March 2009 which included a list and summary of Britain's biggest public sector databases. The report has some mistakes but they're distractions rather than ...
Article on ComputerWeekly.com
News analysis on jargon on ComputerWeekly.com which will be in the print edition next week Links: LGA urges the public sector to ditch jargon to help people during the recession - LGA website The ...
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'Secret' ID Cards Gateway reviews FOI release - key findings
20 Mar 2009 -
The jargon terms council leaders want banned
18 Mar 2009 -
IBM's jargon dictionary
18 Mar 2009 -
NPfIT consultant earned a year off
18 Mar 2009 -
Difficult to blog in the US on healthcare IT?
18 Mar 2009
Below is my summary of two early Gateway Reviews on the ID Cards scheme which were released this week under the Freedom of Information Act. The OGC considers the release of the reports an exception ...
Update 20 March 2009: Jargon ban draws mixed response Below is a list of words and phrases that the Local Government Association wants banned. Many of them lattice the IT industry - and business ...
Dave Shields has written to point out that a dictionary of IBM jargon is not easy to find. "Thanks for providing a link to the IBM Jargon Dictionary. I've been looking for a publicly-accessible ...
Thank you to Richard Hind for letting me know about his former colleague who worked on the NPfIT for a year as a consultant. "The following year he didn't have to work, and travelled the world. ...
A US doctor has written to me saying it is now "very difficult to blog on healthcare IT for fear of reprisals". He adds: "In recent discussions about healthcare reform almost every 'authority' has ...