e-Government

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Experts question security of online vote to pick Tory leader
Technology should not be used as it is unproven for such high-stakes elections, one security specialist says

Alex Hern

22, Aug, 2022 @3:15 PM

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A former hunger striker writes: help give Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe hope | Letters
Letters: Fifty-five years ago, I was part of a hunger strike in apartheid South Africa, writes Beverley Naidoo

Letters

07, Jan, 2019 @6:18 PM

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Commons people: why parliament's 'evidence week' is a national victory
Parliament is supposed to be alive to shifting public concerns and new sources of information. But it doesn’t always work like that

Tracey Brown

25, Jun, 2018 @6:30 AM

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Obama for PM and compulsory Harry Potter: rejected government e-petitions
Since 2011, parliamentary time has been put aside for petitions – but some great British grievances are dismissed before anyone has the chance to sign up

Emine Saner

09, Nov, 2016 @6:41 PM

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Brexit: no second EU referendum despite e-petition, says government
Statement in response to petition signed by more than 4.1m people says referendum was ‘once in a generation’ vote

Nicola Slawson

10, Jul, 2016 @7:15 AM

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E-stonia: the country using tech to rebrand itself as the anti-Russia
President Toomas Henrik Ilves says he has spent 10 years building an open government, and wants to make it ‘impossible to do bad things’ on the internet

Andrew Keen in Tallinn, Estonia

21, Apr, 2016 @8:00 AM

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Why it matters that the chancellor won't fund council technology
Investment in digital directly improves services such as social care, but you wouldn’t know it given George Osborne’s focus on central government

Mary O'Hara

02, Dec, 2015 @12:27 PM

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John Bercow calls for online voting in 2020 general election
Commission set up by House of Commons Speaker also says there should be live social media coverage of debates

Rajeev Syal and agencies

26, Jan, 2015 @11:11 AM

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I only subscribe to this: no more pointless e-petitions | Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Goodbye and good riddance: The next time I’m asked to sign something from Change.org or 38 Degrees, I’m going to do something that may actually have an impact

Alex Andreou

30, Dec, 2014 @12:03 PM

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Gov.uk quietly disrupts the problem of online identity login
The government’s own expert digital design team have spent three years building a new, safe system for verifying user’s identities - now in action on gov.uk. By Charles Arthur

Charles Arthur

06, Nov, 2014 @2:36 PM

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Bank of England's dissenting duo face a tough task winning the day for an interest rate rise
Business leader: With inflation likely to fall further and wages weak, the vote for higher rates by Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty looks doomed

23, Aug, 2014 @11:05 PM

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The costly trail of British government IT and 'big bang' project disasters

From e-borders to the NHS, the billions spent tell a cautionary tale – but have lessons been learned for universal credit?

James Ball and David Pegg

19, Aug, 2014 @7:25 PM

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