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Gov 2.0, or Truly Transformative Government

Tuesday 22 January 2008 13:45 - 18:00

This event is now fully booked.

Location: Portcullis House, London. This event is open to the public. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk Please indicate which sessions you would like to attend (Session one, Session two, Drinks reception: see Agenda).

Outline

For over a decade UK government has been busy moving online. This has made some progress, for example in driver and vehicle licensing, but is yet to take off in terms of usage in the way of some spectacular contemporary Internet examples like Facebook and iTunes. Is this inevitable? Are there good reasons why government and public services do not engage people in the way music, shopping and social networking do? Or is government not yet going about this in the right way, and does the success of the contemporary Internet have important lessons for the design of public services and public engagement? How can we improve value for money, and achieve higher returns on investment, better services and improved operational efficiency? How can we build public trust and protect privacy?

Join our globally renowned speakers to imagine a step change in public sector information system performance and radical redesign of public services and democratic engagement.

Agenda

Session One

  • 13.45: Coffee / tea
  • 14.00: Welcome - Dr Ian Brown (Oxford Internet Institute) and Professor David Cope (POST)
  • 14.05: On-time, on-budget, on-spec government information systems (Prof. Jim Norton, Institute of Directors, and Prof. Martyn Thomas, Oxford University Computing Laboratory)
  • 14.30: Incentivising successful public-sector IT (Prof. Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory)
  • 14.45: Panel Q&A and discussion, chaired by Alun Michael, MP

Session Two

  • 15.05: Coffee / tea
  • 15.25: Reinventing Government for the Internet age (Jerry Fishenden, Microsoft)
  • 15.40: Citizen redesign of user-centric government (William Heath, Ideal Government)
  • 15.55: Small is beautiful: Reengineering government from the bottom-up (Tom Steinberg, mySociety)
  • 16.10: Panel Q&A and discussion, chaired by the Earl of Erroll

Reception

  • 16.30: Drinks reception with speaker Simon Davies (LSE) on Critical friends and successful coalition building
  • 18.00: Close

This event has been organised in partnership with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).