Posts Tagged ‘government’

Corporate Acceptable Use Policies for Social Media – A practical example

I’ve been working closely with a group of people at work struggling with question of Social Media in a corporate environment. Working in government doesn’t make it an easier question, as pubic servants are open to all sorts of scrutiny and employee productivity is easily questioned. However, it was fascinating...

Isle of Man Online Services – Here comes tax

The project I’m working for here in the Isle of Man has moved forward to a new phase and we are getting ready to roll our services for businesses to do online tax filings (see Press Release). It’s a culmination of quite a few activities across government, including providing the...

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, to summarise. One common identifier...

Isle of Man’s e-commerce sets the standard

Apparently the Isle of Man’s e-Commerce industry has been selected by the South Korean island of Jeju as a template for which they are to base their efforts. They describe the Isle of Man as an “IT paradise created on a tourist island”. These are some core phrases they used...

National ID Cards

It seems like every man and his dog has an opinion about whether Britain should implement ID Cards for it’s citizens. Here’s a humorous take on it: A Very Model of a Modern Minister. Just to give you a taster, here’s the first verse: The world today is filled with...

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