The IPPR thinks it will take two terms to reverse the damage wrought on the #publicservies by the #Tories.... sadly I think they are under-estimating the damage the Tory strategy has caused the underlying social structures that support the #publicsector.
Don't get me wrong the work needs to start & will certainly take a decade, but the reversal will take decades to finally rid us of the legacy of a toxic decade of #austerity...
The more immediate Q. is: is #KeirStarmer the man to do it????
If you've been following either the reporting of the #PostOffice#Horizon inquiry, or it dramatisation on TV, you'll likely be surprised (as I was) that #RishiSunak seems to have awarded #Fujitsu another #publicsector contract, this time for the UK's emergency alert system (at £20m per year).
This is not just reward for failure this is rewarding people who were prepared to lie to put innocent postmasters in jail.
The site lays out my position a little more clearly. For now, I have a reading list of the papers that really helped me shape my early thinking. Will be adding more resources as we go
The #LabourParty seems to be feeling its way towards a workable policy on the staffing aspect of the #NHSCrisis;
They seem to be exploring student debt forgiveness for #nurses & #doctors entering the service (with a form of 'golden handcuff' condition of minimum length of service)... its a relatively simple but effective route to address at least some aspects of the #NHS' problems.
A key Q. is whether this might also work in other parts of the #publicsector suffering recruitment problems?
📣 Zum vierten Mal lädt unser Kompetenzzentrum Öffentliche IT #ÖFIT gemeinsam mit dem Trägerkreis (NExTnetzwerk, @informatik und Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.) zur Online-Konferenz #PIAZZA ein!
Am 14. November 2024 werden erneut verschiedene Perspektiven, Expertise und Ideen aus den drei Sektoren #Verwaltung, #Wissenschaft und #Zivilgesellschaft in den Dialog miteinander gebracht.
My father-in-law is a farmer, and has always supplied his crops to farmer cooperatives. Year after year, the cooperatives' financials improve, but the margins for farmers shrink. Reading the financial statements (which are public but well hidden, of course), it's discovered that each year the executives' salaries, the president's, and the employees' increase, and bonuses are awarded to them when the harvests or profits are better than previous years. In practice, the farmer doesn't benefit, except marginally, from a particularly good year for the cooperative. He's been a board member for years and, when he tried to raise this issue, he was gradually and 'elegantly' dismissed from his position, replaced by figures less agricultural and more bureaucratic.
Many Italian public entities own private but publicly owned companies. These entities are obliged to use these companies, often with lower service quality and higher prices than the free market. In theory, this should be an advantage for the community, but in practice, it leads to a decrease in the competitiveness of service prices and lower revenues for local companies, made non-competitive by the obligation. The result is that, year after year, the costs of services increase and we hear about 'record budgets', but, in fact, the only ones earning more are the presidents, board members, officials, and employees. The citizen, however, sees the cost of the service increasing year after year.
I read everywhere about controversies related to the CEO of Mozilla's compensation, and I'm not surprised. It doesn't matter whether it's about distributing 'sugared water (quote)', hardware, public services, agricultural products, or anything else: when there's a lot of money involved, the figures 'at the top' are very, very far from what really happens below. It's pure business.
Regarding this, I will tell an experience related to the BSD Cafe - but I will have to phrase it well as I don't want to be misunderstood or generate controversy and/or bad feelings.
Much of Italian entrepreneurship (especially post-war, but not only) has been tied to people passionate about a product, who have built empires (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Del Vecchio with LuxOttica, Ferrero, and many others). When the boss is actually a Leader with vision and passion, things can work. And it's not a matter of money. Money may come, but as a consequence, not as a target.
When, instead, a 'generic' entrepreneur is put in charge, the product loses its importance - like when a computer company was led by someone who, until the day before, sold 'sugared water', precisely.
Sie interessieren sich für #LowCode und #NoCode? Sie wollen mehr über neue Ansätze erfahren, die eine schnellere, effizientere und flexiblere IT ermöglichen?
Am 27.09. lädt die Low-Code Association e.V. in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Land Niedersachsen und dem SIBB e.V. zu Europas größter herstellerneutralen Kongressmesse "Low-Code Day" in Hannover ein. Wir beteiligen uns als Wissenschaftspartner an der Veranstaltung.
Welp, my extended vacation time has come to an end. It's been a fun couple of months, but today, I'm stoked to start at #CISA, aka the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. I'm very much looking forward to US #government service work.
While I've spent pretty much all of my career involved in #opensource, #public work in #cybersecurity, it's always been under the aegis of corporate sponsorship, so there was always some tension between giving away my work for free versus quarter over quarter earnings and profits and all that.
Now, I'm really leaning into living that #socialist lifestyle and taking a break from capitalism -- let's see how this #publicsector life goes!
CISA is a very, very young bureaucracy; it was founded in 2018, so we're just now figuring out how this whole "America's Cyber Defense" business works, and I'm excited to be a part of that.
Unfortunately, although I'm now a government official, I can't fix your parking tickets or get you out of jury duty. Please stop asking.
'We are told on repeat that public services are unaffordable. Really, there are plenty of ways to fund them – it is just that a populist press & most politicians do not deem it legitimate'!
The Swedish government has recognized Nextcloud as a leading solution for digital collaboration platforms in their report on options for the public sector!
So it seems the 'wage-price' spiral may not be a complete figment of political rhetoric; its just that its not #publicsector or the #lowpaid who are the one's receiving #inflation inducing pay rises... no, its the top 1% of earners who are actually the one's getting pay rises above inflation.
It makes further mockery of the notion that striking #NHS#workers & others are the greedy causes of inflation.
Blaming workers for this inflation is not analysis its #classwar
If you wanted an index on how out-of-touch (or conversely unconcerned ) he is with the plight of the general population this would be it.
The #housingcrisis, the #NHScrisis, the problem(s) of #inequality & other social disruptions will not be solved by more austerity & tax cuts... rather, they will me made worse & #voters know this...
Given the wreckage already caused by Hunt & his predecessors this must be the final nail in coffin of any idea that the #Tories have any interest in the well-being of the country.
He would be hard pushed to stoop lower than trying to bribe #Voters with money he's stealing from them in the coming years to undermine the services they need!
In der aktuellen Episode geht es um Mythen rund um digitale Technologien: Sei es die Vorstellung von der Blockchain als Speicherort für Dokumente, die Hoffnung, KI werde sämtliche Probleme lösen, dass man im Internet immer mit seinen Daten bezahle oder dass etwas aufgrund des Datenschutzes nicht möglich sei.
Diese simplen Erzählungen prägen oft den Diskurs. Unsere ÖFIT-Wissenschaftler Nicole Opiela und Mike Weber diskutieren diese und weitere Digitalisierungsmythen.
#AI#Government#PublicAdministration#PublicSector: "The public should have opportunities to offer input into what technologies are introduced in public administration, since they interface with these agencies and could be adversely impacted by the AI systems they deploy. Ultimately, it’s an issue of trust: If the public can’t trust their democratically elected governments to know their rights — and these technological intermediaries are representative of those governments — it is unlikely they will trust those same institutions to protect their rights.
With governments on pace to adopt more technology, it’s imperative that any new tools are thoroughly evaluated and tested before they are released into the world. AI has the potential to dramatically improve many government processes and could help the cities provide better services. But if technologies are poorly designed, without attention to how they are integrated into society, they could change power relations and how people relate to their governments. In this case, the more likely outcome is the further erosion of trust in public institutions — and undermining the very laws and rules the city is responsible for clarifying and protecting." https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4624114-ai-chatbot-government-public-sector-silicon-valley-new-york-city/