Comments on: Mayo/Steinberg’s Power Of Information review

By: Miliband’s Mayo/Steinberg moment « I’m Simon Dickson.

Miliband’s Mayo/Steinberg moment « I’m Simon Dickson. — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:03:38 +0000

[...] Published September 27th, 2007 bbc Newsnight editor Peter Barron points to an interesting Mayo/Steinberg moment this week. On Tuesday night’s show, David Miliband was being Paxman-ed about Burma: [...]

By: Directgov: the future’s not quite so orange « I’m Simon Dickson.

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:41:32 +0000

[...] New and improved navigation devices are an inevitable part of any redesign exercise. But there’s something curious about the apparent desire to offer ‘new destination pages that are homepages in their own right and will compete with non public sector equivalents for attention’. Hang on – compete? What happened to the Mayo-Steinberg principles? [...]

By: Underwhelming endorsement of Mayo/Steinberg proposals « I’m Simon Dickson.

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:22:18 +0000

[...] about it’ response. By which time, of course, things will have moved on. Where I felt quite inspired after reading the original Mayo/Steinberg paper, this just feels like another pamphlet full of [...]

By: Miliband to FCO: right man, right place, right time « I’m Simon Dickson.

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:07:55 +0000

[...] system ‘in a deal worth £1.47m’ over five years. They received a specific mention in Tom Steinberg’s recent report, naming them as a department which should do more in terms of information sharing and audience [...]

By: HB

HB — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:18:15 +0000

Where would the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations fit into all of this?

By: SimonD

SimonD — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:30:33 +0000

I’m not actually sure that government actively wants to run information industries, Charles – more that it has always done so, and doesn’t see any particular reason to change. Tom’s paper lays down a pretty serious challenge in that regard.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:40:00 +0000

Postcodes are a national asset, though any geographer would be right in telling you that they’re not very accurate – they can cover a wide geographical area, and don’t include addresses you might want to know about (cemeteries being an obvious one..).

But yes, there is huge value that is kept locked away because – as my colleague Mike Cross pointed out in a very good speech recently – government today wants to run information industries just as in the 1970s it thought it could do a better job than everyone else of running telephone companies, car makers and so on. Really, it needs to concentrate on the tasks that it’s best suited or positioned to do (gather national data on weather or geography or tides or health) and make that available to us, the citizens, to do with what we will.

That said, Sam’s work on thegovernmentsays is brilliant.

By: SimonD

SimonD — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:26:22 +0000

Thanks Sam… no, I hadn’t seen travel.thegovernmentsays.com. And I’m guessing (hoping?) the FCO hasn’t seen it either. Their website says: ‘Capture and republication of Country Specific Travel Advice notices is not permitted. Any person who captures and republishes these Travel Advice notices will be liable to prosecution.’ Banged to rights on that one, Sam, surely?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:05:41 +0000

have you seen http://travel.thegovernmentsays.com ?

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