Comments on: Small steps to innovation http://directgov.consumerfocuslabs.org/discussion-paper/making-the-most-of-the-web/small-steps-to-innovation An invitation to debate the future of the UK's online public services Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:17:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Thomas http://directgov.consumerfocuslabs.org/discussion-paper/making-the-most-of-the-web/small-steps-to-innovation/comment-page-1#comment-114 Thomas Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:50:45 +0000 http://directgov.consumerfocuslabs.org/?p=106#comment-114 Show Us A Better Way sounded good, but what has it actually delivered? Two of the three chosen projects actually already exist - http://www.recyclenow.com/ and http://www.cyclestreets.net/ , as pointed out by people just after the competition announced the winners, but there's nothing on those sites that suggests they actually got any funding, I presume both could do with it! Others still like the JobCentre one seem to be messing about scrapeing google for postcodes for lack of funds, because of the idiocy of having to pay for the postcode database, which should a national asset if ever there were one. And the SUABW website seems not to have any kind of follow -up report, again suggesting that they didn't actually use the money that was allocated! It looks as if they came up with the idea but didn't follow it through which is a great shame given what the voluntary sector seem to be doing, seemingly with few funds. Tom Show Us A Better Way sounded good, but what has it actually delivered?

Two of the three chosen projects actually already exist – http://www.recyclenow.com/ and http://www.cyclestreets.net/ , as pointed out by people just after the competition announced the winners, but there’s nothing on those sites that suggests they actually got any funding, I presume both could do with it!

Others still like the JobCentre one seem to be messing about scrapeing google for postcodes for lack of funds, because of the idiocy of having to pay for the postcode database, which should a national asset if ever there were one.

And the SUABW website seems not to have any kind of follow -up report, again suggesting that they didn’t actually use the money that was allocated!

It looks as if they came up with the idea but didn’t follow it through which is a great shame given what the voluntary sector seem to be doing, seemingly with few funds.

Tom

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