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Mark Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Cambridge Judge Business School and former ICT Futures Advisor to the Cabinet Office (confirmed)

Someone’s got to talk about it. “Here come some fast paced observation that are my own”

We need to step up to digital, but we’re living in the era of no one in charge.

Leadership and change management is a serious challenge for government

Only 1% of government spend is going through G-Cloud. We have a long way to go and it’s need moving up the political agenda.

The tories are being quiet thus far on a digital manifesto for the next election. Labour on the other hand has announced a digital government review

Alex Blandford has some interesting views on the labour government digital review

There’s now a small window to speak to labour and influence digital policy

Digital is about breaking things up, Birmingham hit the news with regards to their library website costing £1.7M.

Agile or open standards? Digital seems to be becoming synonymous with agile. Agile needs to be balanced with a focus on reuse and architecture.

We need to start asking who benefits from digital. Is it the silo’s or the front line services. I believe its a cabinet issue. Digital is becoming more and more digital. It about driving new business models rather than just joining things up.

The future of local government services.