Changing the organising principle of Whitehall

"Hello. I'm Mike Bracken. I'm from the Internet."

Public Servant of the Year ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken CBE CDO, executive director of the Government Digital Service (GDS), has made another one of his astonishing speeches.

En passant, please note that "CDO" doesn't mean that he's become a collateralised debt obligation. He's a chief digital officer.

The last speech of his that caught our eye was delivered a year ago on 16 October 2013 to the Code for America Summit 2013.

HMRC digital team plights troth to wrong Liege

Monday 29 September 2014, the week was launched with these rousing words:

I’m Mark Dearnley, HMRC’s Chief Digital and Information Officer. Today we have published HMRC’s Digital Strategy.

 Be still my beating heart, the strategy is no less than to ..

... give all of our customers – individuals, business and agents – their own online tax account ...

Christmas has come early. Not only are we all to get our own on-line tax account but our most Estonian dreams have at last come true – HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) want Martha-now-Lady Lane Fox's digital-by-default to be realised here on earth. They want ...

... the vast majority to deal with us through modern digital services that we’ll offer.

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