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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 'paulmurphy'

New Wales Office websites by Puffbox

1 February 2008 12 , , , , , ,

We're exceptionally proud to unveil the latest Puffbox site: a new corporate website - or indeed, two - for the Wales Office. And as you'd probably expect from us, it's not just another government website. In late 2007, I was invited over to the Wales Office's Whitehall HQ. I hope they don't mind me saying, [...] read on »

Cabinet Minister for digital inclusion?

30 January 2008 3 , , , ,

A timely piece from the BBC's Ashley Highfield on the 'digital divide'. It's timely, because as of this week, Britain has a Cabinet-level minister with responsibility for digital inclusion - Wales secretary Paul Murphy. This news appeared to come as a surprise to BBC Wales's David Cornock when it emerged at PMQs this lunchtime. Mr [...] read on »

Panic over

24 January 2008 0 , , , ,

Well, that's a relief. With Peter Hain resigning at lunchtime, there was a rush of quite rational speculation that the Wales Office might be folded into a new 'department for the devolved bits', covering Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. I've been doing a bit of work for the Wales Office over the last month or [...] read on »

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