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 …
Ruth Kelly has made a formal reponse to the appointment letter from Tony Blair. This is key document since it sets out the plan of work that her department (DCLG) will be engaged in over the next couple of years. Ruth Kelly response
Very interesting session at yesterday evening 200Club meeting. Presentation and discussion around the issues of digital media and the challenge to traditional publishing channels (esp newspapers). The main themes Ubiquity of potential access The w…
Looking forward to attending the Knowledge and Innovation Network (KIN) Conference KIN today at the Swan at Streatley. An opportunity to hear about some of the KM techniques being used in the private sector – with a view to seeing if they can be u…
