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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 'usagedata'

Will COI publish its raw! data! now!?

15 June 2009 4 , ,

I've seen a few ripples of excitement at the news that ABCe is to act 'as a sole third party to independently validate the figures generated by an audit of government websites, in the largest project of its kind to date', with 'COI [to] publish comprehensive figures on the cost quality and use of government [...] read on »

DWP's 'what's new' policy

4 July 2008 0 ,

It's coming to something when the editorial policy of a single page on a government department's website is the subject of a parliamentary question. Naturally, the Tories' shadow secretary of state for Work & Pensions has a particularly keen interest in new additions to the DWP site's What's New page. The top of said page [...] read on »

MPs condemn lack of usage data

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee published its latest report on 'Government on the Internet: Progress in delivering information and services online' a few weeks back. Much of it was pretty predictable: we know we don't have an exact figure for the number of websites, we know we aren't always brilliant on accessibility, and [...] read on »

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