Comments on: Role of contemporary technology in future public services http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:20:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Martin Ferguson http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:56:17 +0000 http://comment.idealgovernment.com/?p=4#comment-45 Please see our Socitm response to the Prime Minister’s speech on Britain’s Digital Future – available for downlaod at http://www.socitm.net. A number of the principles that define our response are echoed in the emerging thinking in the ‘Ideal Government IT Strategy’ .

]]> By: Paul Johnston http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:14:20 +0000 http://comment.idealgovernment.com/?p=4#comment-23 I can see what you mean in the first three paras, but I think they could be clearer and more balanced. Personally, on the positive side I would stress more the role of IT in enabling new types of service, new forms of organisation and new ways of doing things. On the negative side it is sometimes not clear whether you are getting at badly managed and implemented IT projects or the use of IT to support systems of control/surveillance. I think they are rather different issues and are worth separating. I also think the implication that IT has doing nothing for the public sector is probably something of an exaggeration!!

]]> By: Martin Howitt http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:23:40 +0000 http://comment.idealgovernment.com/?p=4#comment-22 @william totally understand that. But to develop (or borrow from management accounting) methods to measure the value that systems bring…I just feel that ought to be in there somewhere.

]]> By: william http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:31:07 +0000 http://comment.idealgovernment.com/?p=4#comment-19 Fair point Martin. Can we get away with having an IT Strategy which says “IT cant exist in isolation”? We seem to have at the moment an official IT Strategy which has no cross reference to Smarter Government. But it’s waaaaaaaaaaay beyond the scope of this to set the wider policies, and we didnt think it our job to summarise the parties manifestos….

]]> By: Fraser http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:29:47 +0000 http://comment.idealgovernment.com/?p=4#comment-17 Squeeze the most out of existing technologies.

Join-up systems.

Encourage “Digital Development Agencies” that cover all LSP functions for the purposes of scrutiny as written here

]]> By: Martin Howitt http://comment.idealgovernment.com/role-of-contempory-technology-in-future-public-services/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:52 +0000 http://comment.idealgovernment.com/?p=4#comment-14 I think we need a recognition that IT on its own delivers no value and that we should discover ways to calculate the value of our investments in IT. Otherwise there’s, um, no value in having an IT strategy – it remains technology and delivery centric.

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