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Should Government consolidate citizen identities across it’s systems?

Interesting approach on the subject of “One Consolidated View of the Citizen” by Richard Allen who outlines the arguments against having a common identifier against citizens in Government databases. The gist of his argument can be found in the last paragraph where he states: So,… Read more »

eGovernment & eVoting

I had the opportunity to attend a great talk last night. The local BCS section organised a talk on eGovernment an invited Des Vincent as speaker for the event. Des gave a very inspiring talk; which had particular impact to me as I am working… Read more »

Use your phone this Valentine Day

Ahhh . … Read this on Wired: Walking through Tokyo’s Ginza district one Friday evening last month I saw an extraordinary sight that will soon become an ordinary one: A businessman was talking into his keitai (the Japanese word for cell phone), holding it out… Read more »

Living the digital lifestyle

Rick Segal has an excellent post on how being tech-savvy gives you a head start in life. His story is based around being stuck in an airport, but I’ll let you have a read: Rick Segal – The New Digital Life via the Scoleizer

Download and read: God’s Debris

Scott Adams has just put up an electronic version of one of his books: God’s Debris. Here’s why he put it up: It’s free because it’s designed to be discussed with people who have also read it. I’m confident that some percentage of the free… Read more »

Scott Adams starts blogging

Scott Adams (the creater of Dilbert) has started blogging. If you can’t get enough Dilbertian humour (one cartoon a day is never enough); check out the blog. There’s more good stuff there.

How to speak at tech conferences

Ever wanted to present a topic at a technical conference? Kathy Sierra has some advice on how to get there which makes very interesting reading. Check it out here