Comments on: Digital Britain – Liberty in Britain http://keepfakingit.com/digital-britain-liberty/ Cian O'Donovan Fri, 18 May 2012 15:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: keepfakingit.com :: Entries :: Trust, the basis of Causewired - Cian O'Donovan - Ee-K-er! http://keepfakingit.com/digital-britain-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-607 keepfakingit.com :: Entries :: Trust, the basis of Causewired - Cian O'Donovan - Ee-K-er! Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:41:10 +0000 http://cianodonovan.com/?p=261#comment-607 [...] our governments get it right with initiatives like Digital Britain, Watson’s point is that there’s a whole ton of people in the [...] [...] our governments get it right with initiatives like Digital Britain, Watson’s point is that there’s a whole ton of people in the [...]

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]]> By: Cian O'Donovan http://keepfakingit.com/digital-britain-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-573 Cian O'Donovan Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:03:16 +0000 http://cianodonovan.com/?p=261#comment-573 Thanks for the links Tony, great initiatives. I probably should have been clearer on the point of digital tools. Yes I think the tools are there. But because of access, education and a willingness on the part of the government to grab onto one end of them when there's regular people on the other, there's not nearly the level of distribution of these tools we need in order to move forward. Part of the reason for that I think lies in the trust deficit. Thanks for the links Tony, great initiatives. I probably should have been clearer on the point of digital tools. Yes I think the tools are there. But because of access, education and a willingness on the part of the government to grab onto one end of them when there’s regular people on the other, there’s not nearly the level of distribution of these tools we need in order to move forward. Part of the reason for that I think lies in the trust deficit.

]]> By: Tony Hirst http://keepfakingit.com/digital-britain-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Tony Hirst Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:55:21 +0000 http://cianodonovan.com/?p=261#comment-572 "A model of what can be done, even in government, is the parallel The Power of Information report, which is fully of exciting recommendations for how government can open up its information for citizens to use in novel ways." We actually took the same publishing model used for the POIT report and republished the Digital Britain interim report in a sim,ilaqr, republishable way: http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain Somments from there are now being syndicated through the Digital Britain public consultation site and via the official Digital Britain Netvibes dashboard. We've also gone a step further and created a wiki for people who'd rather write their own version of the report than comment on the original: http://wiki.writetoreply.org/wiki/The_Fake_Digital_Britain_Report To try and get more than the sum of the parts benefit from these two initiatives, we're also feeding comments from the WriteToReply version of the report into the discussion page of the wiki, so that the Fake Digital Britain report can benefit from comments made to corresponding sections of the real interim report. "The government say that the UK must be allowed compete with the most advanced nations on Earth and to do this we must have an advanced IT infrastructure. But to use an advanced infrastructure, to create an advanced infrastructure, we must have entrepreneurs, thinkers, dreamers and digital literates. And they must be given tools and those tools imparted with trust." We have got the tools - or some of them at least. But just having the tools is different to using them. Maybe WriteToReply isn't the way forward for public consultation, but with only a couple of weeks left to play on the Digital Britain Interim Report consultation, maybe it's worth taking a little time over the next couple of weeks to see just how far we can push it..? Which means we need people to engage with it...;-) “A model of what can be done, even in government, is the parallel The Power of Information report, which is fully of exciting recommendations for how government can open up its information for citizens to use in novel ways.”

We actually took the same publishing model used for the POIT report and republished the Digital Britain interim report in a sim,ilaqr, republishable way:

http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain

Somments from there are now being syndicated through the Digital Britain public consultation site and via the official Digital Britain Netvibes dashboard.

We’ve also gone a step further and created a wiki for people who’d rather write their own version of the report than comment on the original:

http://wiki.writetoreply.org/wiki/The_Fake_Digital_Britain_Report

To try and get more than the sum of the parts benefit from these two initiatives, we’re also feeding comments from the WriteToReply version of the report into the discussion page of the wiki, so that the Fake Digital Britain report can benefit from comments made to corresponding sections of the real interim report.

“The government say that the UK must be allowed compete with the most advanced nations on Earth and to do this we must have an advanced IT infrastructure. But to use an advanced infrastructure, to create an advanced infrastructure, we must have entrepreneurs, thinkers, dreamers and digital literates. And they must be given tools and those tools imparted with trust.”

We have got the tools – or some of them at least. But just having the tools is different to using them. Maybe WriteToReply isn’t the way forward for public consultation, but with only a couple of weeks left to play on the Digital Britain Interim Report consultation, maybe it’s worth taking a little time over the next couple of weeks to see just how far we can push it..? Which means we need people to engage with it…;-)

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