During my secondment for CLG it would be so easy to get engulfed by the government machine and become invisible to the very people that I need to help me from both inside and outside government.
So I intend to use the internet as my workbench, or should I say, our workbench. Subject, of course, to not embarassing anyone or breaking the Official Secrets Act (more of a challenge) which I signed today.
My colleague, Paul Henderson, has been building the vice for the workbench - no pun intended - a nice little Drupal installation, a la ‘Open Innovation Exchange‘, where I will be keeping a diary, begging for insights, case studies, opinions etc. I’ll also be aggregating anything tagged web24gov (#web24gov for Twitter users) so please start tagging now! I want everything, del.icio.us bookmarks, blog posts, podcasts, video, tweets, the lot. Nick Booth, Steve Bridger, Ed Mitchell, David Wilcox, Tom Steinberg, Dave Briggs, Ben Whitnall, Paul Webster et al are you listening? Please get tagging! The vice will in place very shortly.
I’m trying to go into this without any preconceptions, except one, and that is that anything the government does should build on what’s already there . . . existing initiatives, services, ideas, opinions, knowledge and people doing good things. Starting next Tuesday. Looking forward to it!
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May 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Hearing you loud and clear sir!
As well as hearing, will forward to others
Good work.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I hear you.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Me too !
…. and if you want any help with regional dissemination you know where to come!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:43 am
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