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Simon Dickson, principal consultant at Puffbox, has been blogging about e-government, online politics, and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

Archive for 'economist'

New Whitehall innovation hub

There's nothing explicitly technological in the announcement today by the National School of Government that 'the Sunningdale Institute has established an Innovation Hub to develop know-how on stimulating and supporting innovation in government and the public services' - as announced in the DIUS Innovation Nation white paper. (See Steph's interactive version.) But since the Hub's [...] read on »

Government in competition

Two articles in what looks like a special edition of the The Economist this week, which sum up exactly where e-government falls down. In 'Government offline', they write (rightly): Governments have few direct rivals. Amazon.com must outdo other online booksellers to win readers' money. Google must beat Yahoo!. Unless every inch of such companies' websites [...] read on »

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