Kevin Harrington

Tag: Government

  • Manchester’s Big Open Data Project

    What happens when a city decides to make its data available to others to use easily? You get Manchester’s CityVerve. CityVerve’s ‘platform of platforms’ treats the city as a living breathing organism by giving it a technology layer that acts as a central nervous system, smartly supporting and connecting independent systems and applications. It is…

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    Kevin Harrington
    CityVerve in Manchester

  • Working with Government and the Civil Service

    How to get what you want Do Do be patient. The most powerful force in the Civil Service is inertia. Do be polite. The Minister’s best ideas are his own, then the party’s (Manifesto) then those put forward by interested parties and only where they chime with his or his party’s thinking. Make sure you…

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  • Cheques: Payments Council to be curbed

    The government is punishing the Payments Council for trying to phase out cheques, but failing to come up with an alternative.The Council will lose its power to govern the payments systems for UK banks, under new proposals.The government wants to hand the Councils powers to a new body overseen by the new Financial Conduct Authority.The…

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    Kevin Harrington

  • Going cashless

    Payment though the ages has been a slowly evolving process. We started with a system of barter, which was not always convenient: who would want to be a tax collector in those days? We then moved to paying in gold which got replaced by cash and, for a huge proportion of the World, life did…

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    Kevin Harrington