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The apparent inability to exploit technology in a genuinely transformational way in the UK public sector sits particularly uneasily with the UK’s reputation as a pioneer in computing. After all, it was the UK that brought the world figures such as Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Tim Berners-Lee, and innovations from Colossus to the BBC Micro, Sinclair ZX-80, ARM and most recently the Raspberry Pi. Add to this the fact that the British civil service itself was an early pioneer in the use of computers — and something appears to have gone seriously wrong.
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© 2014 Alan W. Brown, Jerry Fishenden, Mark Thompson
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Brown, A., Fishenden, J., Thompson, M. (2014). The UK’s Journey, A Lesson for Us All. In: Digitizing Government. Business in the Digital Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443649_3
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