Comments on: Policy mashed http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/01/policy-mashed/ The inside track since 2003 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lewisham Round Up « Someday I Will Treat You Good http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/01/policy-mashed/comment-page-1/#comment-33611 Lewisham Round Up « Someday I Will Treat You Good Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:10:25 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1846#comment-33611 [...] Policy mashed [...] [...] Policy mashed [...]

]]> By: Ian Cuddy http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/01/policy-mashed/comment-page-1/#comment-33269 Ian Cuddy Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:36:36 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1846#comment-33269 Hi Tom (or should that be Minister?) Can we at Public Sector Forums be the first to offer congrats on taking on Gillian Merron's mantle as minister for T-Gov. We've put in requests into the Central Office of Information about under the Freedom of Information Act about how it is taking forward the Power of Information Review - its responses are published on our site here (gov.uk access only). Hope this helps you. http://www.publicsectorforums.co.uk/page.cfm?pageid=4427 Hi Tom (or should that be Minister?)

Can we at Public Sector Forums be the first to offer congrats on taking on Gillian Merron’s mantle as minister for T-Gov.

We’ve put in requests into the Central Office of Information about under the Freedom of Information Act about how it is taking forward the Power of Information Review – its responses are published on our site here (gov.uk access only). Hope this helps you.

http://www.publicsectorforums.co.uk/page.cfm?pageid=4427

]]> By: Shane McCracken http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/01/policy-mashed/comment-page-1/#comment-32910 Shane McCracken Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:42:27 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1846#comment-32910 I spent Saturday participating in BarCampUKGovweb at Google HQ with 80 or so other people, including a few from mySociety, talking about how the public sector can use the internet better. About half the people were civil servants and half interested voluntary sector, private sector and private individuals. But not one politician! You can see more information at: http://www.pageflakes.com/barcampukgovweb/ Come and join in. We're planning another event in the spring, so stick your name down when the time comes. I spent Saturday participating in BarCampUKGovweb at Google HQ with 80 or so other people, including a few from mySociety, talking about how the public sector can use the internet better. About half the people were civil servants and half interested voluntary sector, private sector and private individuals. But not one politician!

You can see more information at: http://www.pageflakes.com/barcampukgovweb/

Come and join in. We’re planning another event in the spring, so stick your name down when the time comes.

]]> By: Tim Bailey http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/01/policy-mashed/comment-page-1/#comment-32908 Tim Bailey Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:24:33 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1846#comment-32908 Having tried to build mapping applications in the charity sector and been told by the Royal Mail that I need a £5,000 annual subscription to license the post code database - information, by the way, that some of our council clients actually collect for the RM - I can not support too strongly the work of MySociety. There seems to be a short term focus by Government on some departments and services paying their way, which is understandable, but the opportunities that arise with more liberal (not necessarily a free-for-all) licensing and better access to some of these data sets, are potentially huge. If I were a new Junior Minister :-) trying to make an impact in this area, I might do worse than offer MySociety a (large) sum of money to go off and create a whole swathe of demonstrators, to prove concept in a wide number of areas of government - citizen interaction. If they would have it, of course. Having tried to build mapping applications in the charity sector and been told by the Royal Mail that I need a £5,000 annual subscription to license the post code database – information, by the way, that some of our council clients actually collect for the RM – I can not support too strongly the work of MySociety. There seems to be a short term focus by Government on some departments and services paying their way, which is understandable, but the opportunities that arise with more liberal (not necessarily a free-for-all) licensing and better access to some of these data sets, are potentially huge.

If I were a new Junior Minister :-) trying to make an impact in this area, I might do worse than offer MySociety a (large) sum of money to go off and create a whole swathe of demonstrators, to prove concept in a wide number of areas of government – citizen interaction. If they would have it, of course.

]]> By: Andrew Brown http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2008/01/policy-mashed/comment-page-1/#comment-32850 Andrew Brown Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:20:17 +0000 http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/?p=1846#comment-32850 That could explain why so many of my fellow branch members have worked for MPs! That could explain why so many of my fellow branch members have worked for MPs!

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