Switch New Media, a Quadriga Consulting partner company (we work together on the Government 2010 initiative), is streaming a major conference for the Technology Strategy Board – the body tasked with getting government and commercial worlds to cooperate more in innovation.
Tomorrow’s event is focused on Digital Britain.
Live Streaming tomorrow from the TSB Collaboration Nation conference.
Watch live from 9am Wed 31st March.
On the 22nd of October, Quadriga Consulting – in conjunction with Switch New Media – held the first Government 2010 live streamed event from London. While we had just around 80 invited guests and speakers in the room, the event was watched by over 1,100 people worldwide – from 29 countries and 129 cities.
The event generated over 75 pages of tweets using the event’s #g2010 hash tag – indeed #g2010 was a UK trending topic on Twitter on the day of the event.
Speakers included Peter Kellner of YouGov; Adam Afriyie MP, Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation; William Heath, founder of Kable; and Tom Steinberg of MySociety.org
Government 2010 has only just started – we’re already hatching plans for next year. Watch this space. Oh and you may wish to watch Peter Kellner’s keynote address while you’re here. The rest of the presentations and panel sessions can be found here.
Peel to Speak at Microsoft ISU in London
Jeffrey Peel, Managing Consultant at Quadriga Consulting, is to speak at Microsoft’s Industry Solutions University (ISU) in London in November.
ISU is Microsoft’s largest global internal training event that targets the improvement of Microsoft Enterprise Field Teams’ capacity by providing up-to-the-minute customized training from leading customers, partners, and industry experts.
Jeff will be focusing on the opportunity in local and regional government.
Microsoft’s ISU takes places just 2 weeks after Quadriga Consulting’s major Government 2010 Event in London. Government 2010 features once of the most extensive line-ups of speakers focused on next generation government ever assembled for a live streamed event.
I’m delighted that the Government 2010 web site is now live. This is the best place to get up to date on what promises to be one of the most important series of government 2.0 events in the UK over the course of the next year.
Our first event will be in London in October.
By Jeffrey Peel – At the CBI Conference in London a couple of weeks ago, I got the opportunity to ask the Chancellor about his plans to introduce lower corporation tax rates in the regions.
This is a subject that interests me, of course, because I pay corporation tax and my business is based in a region with vast public sector dependency and a relatively stunted commercial sector. It always seems to be a particularly nasty tax to business-people. After all, we take risk, set up our own businesses with our own money, pay income tax on our earnings, and then have to pay tax on any profit we make. In this respect it really works against enterprise and risk-taking. It also stifles investment.
Anyway, the question I asked is one that will interest business people in the so-called “less advantaged” UK regions such as Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
I asked if Mr Darling had any plans to introduce a lower, preferential, rate for these regions. He said no…in a politician’s usual, roundabout, way. As for Northern Ireland, he made clear that the issue of tax was being considered by Sir David Varney – and we’re all awaiting his report (if not with bated breath).
However, the Chancellor’s answer was laden with negativity – he hinted heavily that a special corporation tax rate for NI would work against other UK regions and would be very tricky to administer.
I tend to agree – despite the fact Northern Ireland shares a land border with a country with a much lower CT rate.
The answer begs another question though…which is when will corporation tax in the UK be reduced to the same level as RoI? Because that, rather than fiddling with regional CT rates, is what we need – right across the whole of the UK.
Quadriga Consulting, the ICT sector market analysis and consulting firm, today announced the launch of a major new research project designed to paint a much clearer picture of the current status of transformational change in local government.
The role of technology as an enabler in delivering effective and efficient services, information sharing and the take up of public services is a common theme in the context of ‘transformational government’. The research assignment will be designed to focus on how local authorities are going about implementing a transformational strategy.
According to Jeffrey Peel, Quadriga Consulting’s CEO, “There is a growing need for local authorities to develop better ICT resources that will enable partnership at all levels and departments, suppliers and with the voluntary sector. In addition there is the growing need for authorities to co-operate and develop shared services models. The survey will allow us to build a better picture of current state of play in local government. Every UK authority will be invited to participate and we are actively seeking the involvement of the ICT vendor community to help define the scope of the study. Findings will be shared with participants and the vendor community.”
Agenda and Booking Details – Local Government Solutions Forum
Jeffrey Peel, CEO of Quadriga Consulting, will be speaking at the Local Government Solutions Forum at the World Trade Centre in Barcelona in Barcelona on March 13th and 14th – sponsored by Microsoft, Cisco, Cap Gemini, Agresso, Euro Cities and ESRI. Partners with a focus on local government should register for this important event.
The theme of the day on the 14th is ‘Service Transformation’: highlighting the best local government projects. Presentations will cover strategies to meet the demands and future needs of citizens, projects highlighting the value of municipal wireless networks, implementing shared services models and delivering higher levels of performance management and accountability. The 13th will be a special partner day – for partners with solutions focused on the local government sector.
Agenda and Booking Details – Local Government Solutions Forum
(Please note that spaces for the separate EuroCities event taking place on the 15th and referred-to in the document are strictly limited. However partners are welcome to apply for the events on the 13th and 14th. Reservation procedures are included in the PDF).
Quadriga Consulting has been commissioned to write a report, for Microsoft Dynamics, on the current state of play regarding CRM in local and regional government.
The report should be published in the New Year. The White Paper will focus on the current state of play re. CRM in the sector, the regulatory environment and will refer to case studies across Europe and beyond where local authorities are redefining citizen relationships based on CRM initiatives. If you are a local authority and would like to tell us your CRM story please do not hesitate to get in touch.
