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Weblog Archive - June 2007

Site to highlight women in politics

MP Margaret Moran is working with a group of female journalists to produce a site that would provide audio and visual content from a range of sources. The BBC and Parliament have said they will make content that had already been broadcast available for streaming through the site. Women's Parliamentary Radio, as the project is called, is now looking for funds to develop and launch the site which will ...

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What shall we do with the PSP?

Ofcom, the independent regulator of the UK telecommunications industries, plans to analyse the economics behind of the provision of public service digital media content to try to work out if there is any "shortfall in provision". I doubt that means another overhaul of the BBC however.

Behind the scenes Ofcom has been consulting many people in the digital media industry about using online to deliver public service "audio-visual ...

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Bad news for burglars

Google's Street View may be smart but it does raise issues of privacy

Recently Google launched a new feature to their online maps called Street View, complete with a typo in the title (see the top of your web browser), and a video on YouTube rather than their own Google Video.

Google Street Maps lets you zoom in on Google Maps, click any road outlined in blue, and see the road at street level in any direction. For now they've only driven ...

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Parliament starts online consultations

Parliament gets online

Parliamentary consultation has gone online, as can be found in the work of the Select Committee. The first committees to try this are the Medical Care for the Armed Forces (Defence Committee), Local Government and the Draft Climate Change Bill.

As William Heath at The Ideal Government Project says: "It’s taken a while, and it’s a slow start... Parliament is where consultation can make a huge ...

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Scotland for IT

Scotland continues to use technology to improve public services

The Scottish Executive says it plans to continue using technology to 'improve public services'. That's just as well then. It's Efficient Government Initiative is more or less on track, but clinicians could make more use of existing IT; more organisations could make savings by using the eProcurement Scotland system and it all needs more clarity to work out if they are actually saving money. Part of the problem is ...

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