Picking up on the issues surrounding the various ‘knowledge sharing’ initiatives across the public sector – as recently aired by the article in Public Sector Forums. Far from there being any power struggle amongst the various protagonists (IDeA,…
It seems the debate on the (ir)rellevance of IPSV (Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary) has burst out into the open again. I can’t help but empathise with the unamed ‘expert’ mentioned in the PSF article who states that “There are currently no ben…
Intrigued by Zahmoo, which I came across today. According to the “About Us”, it “makes it easy for you to manage your most significant change projects. Use Zahmoo to collect stories, organise selections, and keep track of the selected stories thro…
Picked this up from Kable today. Good to see Gov is keeping up with the social computing trends:The Cabinet Office has placed two promotional videos on the YouTube file sharing website One of the videos promotes the Transformational Government str…
Terrific interview on eGovmonitor with Marilyn Leask, new Head of Knowledge & Learning at the IDeA, about how the IDeA will be supporting the (public) sector through more effective and systematic use of KM. Marilyn is my successor in this position…
Quite a confusing landscape out there in public sector land with all these various initiatives to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing. Check out the announcement from Socitm about the enhancements to their Knowledge Exchange for a new kn…
So, just goes to prove that money doesn’t buy you happiness! Seems there is mutiny in the ranks involved in the NHS IT Project . Even 6.6bn doesn’t buy you competence. Whatever happened to the concept of small pilot projects to test and verify th…
The Treasury has released an interim report on the assessment of value for money across all government departments. Sets out progress on the current efficiency programme and the government’s strategy for driving further value for money improvement…
At last the penny has dropped. It looks like the government has taken notice of the trend for blogging and online community spaces. At least Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education and Skills has in a recent speech called Democracy and Educ…
I’ve long advocated that the best way to encourage a learning and sharing environment is by enabling Connections rather than relying on Collections of codified knowledge stored in a database or in a web site. In other words, bring people together …
