NS Roundtable - IT and modernisation

Building technologies for the future

This New Statesman round table discussion, sponsored by Atos Origin, debated issues around IT and how it affects the modernisation of society and, in turn, how society's attitudes affect the technology that seeks to make our lives easier. Public perception of IT projects as successes or failures can have a dramatic impact on those working in the industry, and which projects they take on. Projects that take several years to realise can change considerably from the initial scope. Comparisons between public and private sectors can be misleading in such a young industry.

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Participants

Tony Ageh
Project leader
iPlayer, new media division BBC

Neil Glass
Author of Plundering the Public Sector;
pseudonym David Craig

Richard Granger
Director general IT, Department of Health

Alan Jackson
Chief technical officer
Aidworld

John Coulthard
Director, Healthcare, Microsoft

Barbara Kitchenham
Professor of quantitative software engineering, Keele University

Matt Locke
Creative director, BBC new media innovation

Joanne McCartney
London Assembly Member; Mayor's e-envoy; vice chair LondonConnects, GLA

Will Davies
Former head of digital society and media, Institute for Public Policy Research

Malcolm Fallen
CEO, Kingston Communications

Eamonn Molloy
Lecturer in operations and technology management, Said Business School

Stephen Timms MP
Chief Secretary to the Treasury, former e-government minister

Derek Wyatt MP
Chairman of the allparty iGroup; Founder, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University

John Yard CBE
Member, EzGov Europe Middle-East Advisory Council,

Other participants were: Derek Ward Executive vice president, UK markets and accounts, ATOS Origin.
Observers: Tariq Khokhar, Aidworld; Matthew Style Private secretary to Stephen Timms MP

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