Well, its finally 2005 and the ‘target’ date for so many e-government projects.

out in 2005

- targets - doesn’t this just sound like electronic Stalinism?
- identity cards - what’s the point?
- Microsoft licences - how can the taxpayer be asked to make this corporation even richer?
- pictures of local authority mayors on websites - isn’t this just vanity publishing?
- local authority websites
- spam - surely there is something governments can do? or us?
- SUVs - surely one of the success stories of e-government is the congestion charging scheme in London. Lets up the CC to £50.00 a day for drivers of these schmuck trucks.

in for 2005

- local authority wikis
- Freedom of Information - get your request in before the government puts all the goodies in the shredder
- open source e-government - let the citizens have access to the code that lies beneath e-government projects - that could be a good boost to e-democracy
- work place blogs - lets get the staff telling the real story
- information retrieval tools - which integrate the desktop with the web (Google already have some beta tools )
- citizens blogs

[blog curtailed - Popeye the cat is sticking his claws into my arm...]