egovernance

Beyond Transparency – could NI embrace open data?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on November 7, 2013, 8:45 am

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Open Data initiatives in Northern Ireland have been – to date – relatively stumbling affairs that fall far behind London-led efforts. (The inability to use Translink timetable and bus stop geocode data to build an independent third-party NI travel app was particularly exasperating.) However, there has been some movement and the alignment of planets, keen civil servants who recognise the benefits and a new Minister of Finance & Personnel Simon Hamilton creates hope that the drawers to the electronic filing …

It’s good to talk: 85% of NI adults would prefer to ask council about bin collection by phone; only 3% would go online

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on August 2, 2013, 12:00 pm

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Ofcom’s annual Communications Market Report was published yesterday with a range of observations about the communication and media habits across Northern Ireland (as well as Scotland, Wales and the UK as a whole). In this post I want to concentrate on the section of the report that looks at take-up of online government services, often known as e-government. But first some other headlines from the NI CMR 13 report: Northern Ireland was slower than the rest of the UK to …

Electronic counting

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 4, 2012, 4:59 pm

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Electronic counting is being used at a number of counts at this week’s elections across Scotland, England and Wales. London Elects 2012 (the independent team that organises teh Mayor London and London Assembly elections) produced a detailed – ie, eight minutes long – overview of the electronic counting process. While awaiting confirmation of Boris’ margin of victory, I know some Slugger readers will be keen to increase their political trivia … particularly since MLAs, Electoral Commission and EONI staff are …