* Posts by David Evans

2 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jul 2008

Government waves cutlass at IT budget

David Evans
Stop

Martin Read + Government CIO

I thought John Suffolk was HM CIO, and that Martin Read was doing a review at Treasury...http://www.cio.gov.uk/about_the_council/council_members.asp

Would a data notification law improve UK data security?

David Evans
Boffin

Glad you liked my question...

Asking the panel if they had any good examples was a bit mean, but I was hoping someone would step out. Personally, I would have said the Police National Computer was a good example...but the moment you say something is good a hundred people are ready to flame you over why it is naff. I don't blame them for not taking that risk. On the main issue of your article, I remain unconvinced either way at this stage. I think things will take a bigger step forward when new technology creates radical process changes in the public sector, rather than being used to map existing ones. I also think that idea isn't particularly new or clever - just hard to do in practice. By the way, this is my own view, and not an official BCS pronouncement! More of the same here - www.bcs.org/blogs/davidevans