Comments on: DVLA Reveal Confidential Driver Info http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/dvla-reveal-confidential-driver-info/ Reporting the effects of Technology on the Media and Communications. Sun, 16 May 2010 10:04:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Simon Perry http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/dvla-reveal-confidential-driver-info/comment-page-1/#comment-47765 Simon Perry Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:43:01 +0000 http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/dvla-reveal-confidential-driver-info/#comment-47765 Like the thinking on the API Howard - and the Facebook App! I know the heart of this piece is data security, but for a long time I've been wincing that the H U G E amount of our tax that is handed out the companies to build software to run the government infrastructure - pensions, tax, etc. My suggestions. Create and publish the specification for these mammoth system - let open source collectives in on the act. I think they'll create system far superior and potentially for free. A percentage of the billions of pounds that would normally be spend/wasted on the commercial solution could then be directed to the causes that the team member felt were important to support, based on the amount of work that they put into the project. What do you think? Like the thinking on the API Howard – and the Facebook App!

I know the heart of this piece is data security, but for a long time I’ve been wincing that the H U G E amount of our tax that is handed out the companies to build software to run the government infrastructure – pensions, tax, etc.

My suggestions. Create and publish the specification for these mammoth system – let open source collectives in on the act. I think they’ll create system far superior and potentially for free.

A percentage of the billions of pounds that would normally be spend/wasted on the commercial solution could then be directed to the causes that the team member felt were important to support, based on the amount of work that they put into the project.

What do you think?

]]> By: howard scott http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/dvla-reveal-confidential-driver-info/comment-page-1/#comment-47750 howard scott Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:27:32 +0000 http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/dvla-reveal-confidential-driver-info/#comment-47750 If I were in charge of the Government's computer systems I'd be seriously considering installing a solid API right now to make all this data "loss" easier to manage on a common platform. Something like what Facebook did a while ago. The DVLA for example could adopt Google's Open Social maybe? Then the Government would appear all trendy web2.0 as forward thinking rather than looking foolish when they lose discs in the back of a UPS van etc. I've already started development of my Inland Revenue "Compare tax payments with your friends" Facebook application. Howard -- If I were in charge of the Government’s computer systems I’d be seriously considering installing a solid API right now to make all this data “loss” easier to manage on a common platform.

Something like what Facebook did a while ago. The DVLA for example could adopt Google’s Open Social maybe?

Then the Government would appear all trendy web2.0 as forward thinking rather than looking foolish when they lose discs in the back of a UPS van etc.

I’ve already started development of my Inland Revenue “Compare tax payments with your friends” Facebook application.

Howard
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