1. Innovation in the Public Sector
Tim Willoughby
Assistant Director
LGCSB

2. Innovation
Radical
Incremental
Newton / Heisenberg

3. 5 Business Drivers

4. Effective Communication
Clear Messages
Reduce Complexity
Dont have opinions on everything
Good and Bad News

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6. Security is changing
Security has to be appropriate
Security has to be measured
Can have things so secure that they are unusable.

7. Cloud / Open is forcing ChangeWith or Without the Owners / Shareholders

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9. So far ICT has not fundamentally changed government
1990s: lCT expectedto make government more transparent, efficient and user oriented
2005+: disillusion as bureaucracy still in existence
Can Cloud Help?
Jane E. Fountain Gov 1.0 Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

10. Goverment dont always Understand What the people Want?

11. What governments often Deliver

12. Innovation / transformation..Open Data / Open Government?
If people dont know what youre doing, they dont know what youre doing wrong
Jim Hacker
Open Government (I980)

13. Why do Government use GIS
Massive demand for timely, relevant information picture says a 1000 words
Support decision making
Provide users with all the information required to make an informed decision.
Ability to integrate vast amounts of data within one View (Mashup)
Exploit visualisation techniques to present information according to user preference (Raster, vector, 3D, tabular etc)
Visualise /identify patterns/trends etc
Personalisation
Mobile
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14. Sharing!

15. The Data Underworld

• Massive network of services: water, sewage, drains
• 16. Need to know asset location for planning and maintenance
• 17. Many databases, varying accuracy and provenance
• 18. Context
• 19. Ongoing street openings p.a.
• 20. Safety!