UK Home Office Considers Mapping Faces of Criminals
BY Nick Judd | Monday, June 27 2011
The United Kingdom's Police.uk crime mapping website may be expanded to include photographs of offenders and more details about their offences, the BBC reported Sunday. The BBC gave a tip of the hat to the Sunday Times, ... Read More
The Europe roundup: Europe gets geeks - does it, really?
BY Antonella Napolitano | Tuesday, June 21 2011
EU | Europe gets geeks - does it, really? The Digital Agenda Assembly concluded its works last week gathering 1300 people from over Europe to discuss the key points of the Digital Agenda, the EU strategy for the digital ... Read More
The Europe Roundup: MySociety.org Evaluation Reports
BY Antonella Napolitano | Friday, June 17 2011
UK | mySociety.org evaluation reports After years of successful projects aimed at raising civic awareness, mySociety.org commissioned a detailed analysis of two of its most successful projects, TheyWorkForYou and ... Read More
Think Globally, Tweet Locally: British Town Council In Midst of 24 Hours of Tweets
BY Nick Judd | Thursday, March 3 2011
Boring but important: The Walsall Town Council took to Twitter March 24 to explain its value to citizens, 140 characters at a time. One of the weirdly great things about the rising significance of the Internet in daily ... Read More
British Austerity Battle Takes Up "Facts on Fees"
BY Nancy Scola | Friday, December 10 2010
Tories in the British government are rather chuffed with the response to their online campaign called "Fact on Fees," an attempt to push the conservative take on tuition increases for universities in the UK. Read More
A Spot of Tech with the PM's Toast
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, October 14 2010
From the UK Conservatives' Flickr feed: "The Prime Minister David Cameron has a piece of toast and checks the web on an iPad." Read More
Listen: National Archives' Digital Services Director on the UK's New Leg Site
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, August 19 2010
Here's a bit more on the UK's new legislative website I noted yesterday: O'Reilly Radar's Alex Howard has a 19-minute audio interview with John Sheridan, the National Archives' (UK) head of e-services in which Sheridan ... Read More
The UK Gets Its Law Dot Gov
BY Nancy Scola | Wednesday, August 18 2010
The United Kingdom's National Archives has launched Legislation.gov.uk, an online home for legislation from 1267 to the present day. That's not a typo. That's just an old, old country. Read More
Thank You for Not Emailing
BY Nancy Scola | Tuesday, August 10 2010
British MP Dominic Raab; photo by Miki Yamanouchi Read More