By Steven McGinty Last week, more than half a million people signed an e-petition to block controversial US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, from entering the UK. These signatures were gathered using the UK Parliament’s official e-petitions website, which allows any ....
If you follow this blog regularly then you’ll know that we write on all areas of public and social policy. What you might not realise though is that our Knowledge Exchange team is just one part of a much wider ....
By Steven McGinty “Singapore leads in all dimensions of digital readiness and scores high in economic competitiveness, citizen engagement as well as public sector productivity.” These are the words of Ng Wee Wei, Managing Director (Health & Public Service) at ....
By Morwen Johnson This week has been Open Access Week – an annual global event which is a chance for the academic and research community to discuss the benefits of Open Access, and inspire wider participation in helping to make ....
Last week the Alliance for Useful Evidence and The Social Innovation Partnership published an evidence ecosystem map, designed to give a picture of the diversity of organisations involved in supporting evidence use in the government and public sector. We were ....
By Steven McGinty Last month, the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee launched an inquiry into the UK’s digital economy. Iain Wright MP, the Chair of the Committee, explained that: “Digital technology is rapidly changing the economic ....
By Steven McGinty Continuing my series on digital government best practice, I will be looking at the success of Norway and what they hope to achieve through their Digital Agenda for Norway (DAN) strategy. Norway is already a leader in ....
By Steven McGinty In April 2011, the Government Digital Service (GDS) was launched to lead the digital transformation of government. The focus was on making public services digital by default (a policy which envisions most public services being delivered online), ....
By Steven McGinty In July, Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office, Lord Bridges, announced that there would be an independent cross-party review on Freedom of Information (FOI). The UK’s FOI Act was introduced in 2000 (in Scotland, FOI legislation ....
By Steven McGinty “We should talk about a digital-embracing government, not e-government” These are the words of Andres Kütt, system architect and adviser to the Estonian Information Security Authority. By this he means that the term ‘e-government’ implies a separation ....
