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2008

Government in the UK once lead the world in it's own information systems, breaking Enigma, documenting an empire's worth of trade. And then it fired everyone who could do those things, or employed them only via horribly expensive consultancies. It is time to start bringing them back into the corridors of power.

Tom Steinberg

# 21st October 2008, 10:29 pm / mysociety, government, it, tom-steinberg

FixMySpine. JP muses over what would happen if huge government IT contracts were handed to small, agile teams like MySociety instead of gargantuan IT consultancies. I’ve often wondered the same thing.

# 18th January 2008, 11:25 pm / consultancies, fixmyspine, fixmystreet, government, it, jpstacey, mysociety

Schools and colleges should make pupils, teachers and parents aware of the range of free-to-use products (such as office productivity suites) that are available, and how to use them.

Becta

# 12th January 2008, 10:35 am / education, becta, schools, uk, it, openoffice, microsoft, open-source, freesoftware