Saturday, Mar 20, 2010
Vote for Christmas, turkeys
The Times: Government webpage for every citizen in the race to create a paperless society
The aim is that within a year, everybody in the country should have a personalised website through which they would be able to find out about local services and do business with the Government.
Posted by devo @ 10:39 PM (1189 views) Add Comment
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1. devo said...
dave cameron, nicky clegg (and vincent ' vinny' cable) said they thought of it first
2. sneaker said...
What if I don't want one?
Meanwhile, what's this got to do with house prices crashing?
3. enuii said...
Sounds like a giant IT ponzi scheme and a potential nightmare if it all goes pear shaped but at least all the redundant state employees will be able to collect their benefits from big brother at the click of a little button. What use is the state if it doesn't need people anymore and conversely what use are people if the state doesn't want them!
4. novice pete said...
What if online goes offline?
5. sneaker said...
and what happens if some miscreant despotic tyrant somehow rises to power?
they say it could never happen, just like every other time it could never happen.
Hitler was democratically elected. Just imagine if he had access to all your electronic records in the database state?
6. enuii said...
Sneaker, not much else to talk about as it has been unnervingly quiet on the news front over the last two days!
7. devo said...
what's this got to do with house prices crashing?
government control
8. enuii said...
Just link it into google street view and you could paint virtual red crosses on peoples houses without ever showing your face and paintbrush in public.
The possibilites are endless.
9. devo said...
citizens rush to get to the front of the queue for their lanyards
10. novice pete said...
I don't think Hitler was democratically elected.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitlerdemo.htm
11. novice pete said...
Hitler's Rise to Power
12. devo said...
a 21st century hitler would be stopped long before he came to a position of power
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14. tyrellcorporation said...
Good job the governmnet has such a great reputation for delivering grand IT schemes on time and to budget... oh, hang on....
Surely MySpace or Facebook could be modified to do this at a fraction of the price? They are proven database driven web-apps. You could license the technology ans re-skin them for dull folk with big red buttons, and smileys everywhere, etc
15. tyrellcorporation said...
Sonday mornimg typos, sorry....
16. taffee said...
devo
I think invading iraq and afganistan resulting in the death of 600,000 people based on complete lies is comparable with hitler imo as is the stifling of free speech and left wing only politics
apparently tony bliar is helping labour win the next election...he should be in the haige
17. Pyracantha said...
Another opportunity for a government database to accidentally fall into the wrong hands...
18. Topher Bear said...
I don't want one either.
Since the government is such a huge employer this would drive unemployment figures up as well as all the other problems associated with financial online transactions.
Job seekers can be got without having to see an official, apply from your laptop sitting on a beach! The face to face is about making sure the benefitee is not trying to con the state.
Some stuff using modern tech is good, like the text apt reminders, but this whole sale approach is dangerously stupid, can't see it being a vote winner with that all important political group the oap's.
I'l getting really worried about george orwell's vision coming true, and to see an up to date version try ben elton's blind faith.
We are sleep walking into a dangerous state. We are the proverbial frog in the boiling water, we need to jump out and turn off the gas before its too late!
19. doomwatch said...
This assumes everybody in the UK is connected to the interweb.
Any money saved would be easilty swallowed up by whichever large US IT consultancy "chosen" to delivery this
project 5 years late and 15 billion over budget. Probably the same IT "consultancy" that lobbies the "government" to
keep attacking intependent IT freelance workers with things like IR35.
20. Crunchy said...
The cashless society draws a little bit closer. Slowly, slowly catch the monkey.
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