This notice from PayPal caught my eye today in relation to safe web browsers. Getting on my hobby horse again (see previous post on this topic), I wonder when the UK public sector are going to wake up to the fact that the vast majority of governme…
Last week for submissions – Deadline 3rd May Don’t miss your chance to be involved with the highly regarded Online Information Conference this year. There is just one week left before the call for papers closes and here are some of the reasons why…
Americans are turning in large numbers to government websites to access information and services. Fully 82% of internet users (representing 61% of all American adults) looked for information or completed a transaction on a government website in th…
The following is a transcript of the Knowledge Hub ‘Hot Seat’ on-line question and answer session that took place on 26th February 2010 on the IDeA CoP Platform. Further information about the Knowledge Hub is available at: http://www.local.gov.uk/…
NEWS (full article) The Digital Economy Act is fundamentally flawed and should be repealed, according to the Liberal Democrats. Technical measures proposed in the law, such as blocking websites for suspected copyright infringement, “simply aren’t …
Interesting news story in the FT about one of my old employers – Reuters (now Thomson Reuters). I particularly liked the quote from Devon Wenig about catering for the 23 year old who has grown up with Google. Abstract from the story below: Thomson…
ONLINE INFORMATION CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPERS Have you submitted a proposal yet? The deadline of May 3rd is approaching fast. Here’s why you should submit a proposal: Show case your work with 700 delegates from over 40 countries and be seen as a…
I’m not sure if anyone else has shared my frustration at having come across a really useful or interesting website and then discovered there is no RSS facility to subscribe to subsequent updates. Clearly the author/owner of the website believes th…
Picked up from Robert Hicks’ post on FutureGov. “Most senior civil servants are Generation Xers, born at a time without the internet. But does this mean that web communities are too ‘young’ for top officials to operate in effectively? In interview…
On 23 December 2009, the Government published a consultation paper on policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey. The purpose of this consultation was to seek views about how to best implement proposals made by the Prime Minist…
