One normally sees BBC’s political correspondent Nick Robinson against a backdrop of the black door at 10 Downing Street. Last week, when I saw a quick glimpse of him doing a report from Silicon Valley, I was wondering why? It seems that Tony Blair has been rubbing shoulders with Cisco, Apple and Google; but especially with Cisco;
Medicine Weekly has a report on the the Health Ireland Portal Project.
That’s the title of a Tom Peters hastily jotted list from the end of 2005 – I’ve extracted the IS/IT ones here;
Pebbleroad recently posted a case study about the Singapore branch of the British council implementing a intranet based wiki. Longish article, but there are some gems.
This is the title of a piece today on The Guardian Technology section.
According to the piece
"The NHS is preparing a national information campaign to inform patients
about shared records. One way to build confidence would be to emphasise
that patients own their data and have a right to view it and correct
it, as well as decide who should see it."
By all accounts, the days of "implied consent" are long gone.
Adrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post penned this article in yesterday’s paper about a free Wifi service for Dublin. I am dumbfounded by the following remark, where he is talking about the cost of such an implementation.