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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
February 2011
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From On-line Prefects to Cyberwarriors: opening up the career paths of the future
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Feb 2011 -
Why do we never learn? Because good practice is punished hardest when it matters most
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Feb 2011 -
Put PFI Contracts On-line for Public Scrutiny
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Feb 2011
If we do not give our existing workforce the skills in demand today and enable our children to acquire the skills of tomorrow (when they need them) there will be no-one left in wealth-creating ...
he obsession with studies of "Best Practice", assuming skilled and experienced staff, is itself a prime cause of the continuity of bad practice. The need is to publicise and enforce adequate ...
Many of the most egregious PFI contract are unprofitable, or would be if enforced. Public scrutiny would identify a multitude of bottom-up ways of incrementally improving quality of service and ...
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What is the difference between NHS NPfIT and the DWP IT Strategy for the Universal Credit?
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Feb 2011 -
What is the case (business or clinical) for a "universal patient record"?
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2011 -
How much of your personal data will go on sale as an unnecessary side effect of cost savings
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Feb 2011 -
Using broadband infrastructure investment to help engineer economic recovery
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Feb 2011
The "case" for the Universal Credit and the long term benefit has been much better researched. It is the IT strategy to deliver those benefits that has not.
I think that also means reverting to the 1992 strategy. That was intended to support an internal market and led directly to many of the systems (clinical and GP) that keep current health care ...
do make sure that these include certification that they have been cleansed to similar standards because the risk of "interesting" data being exchanged via Facebook or sold to the Daily Mail is that ...
... the governments of most other nations were less capricious and more likely to deliver their end of a long term investment package than the mix of conflicting tribal interests and short-termism ...