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David Cameron’s been caught bending the truth a bit over the matter of his iPad app. Earlier in the year it was rumoured the PM was testing an official government mobile app, a rumour the PM subsequently denied. But he was. He’s using right now, in fact.
The PM’s bespoke iPad app (which is actually more of a mobile web site) features job and property data provided by Adzuna, which claims a beta version of the app is “currently being tested by a small group of people within Number 10 and other senior officials” pending a full launch to senior officials. Here’s Adzuna with a little more detail:
The Dashboard is designed to keep the Prime Minister and senior figures across Government informed across a handful of key performance indicators – economic, political and governmental. The sections include data on trending topics from major search engines; Adzuna’s real-time stats on job vacancy numbers, salary trends and regional housing supply; economic indicators from the ONS; and information about government services, spending and efficiency.
The governmental mobile site also “has a home screen containing key news, polling data, Twitter feeds, analyst comment and the Number 10 diary for the day – then 3 further tabs for Jobs, Housing and Government,” according to Adzuna, although it doesn’t come with anything as fancy as nuclear launch abilities. It sounds like it’s more of a glorified RSS reader.
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Denial Dave. Are we surprised?
Yes, yes we are.
He could publish the e-mails on it that he never gave to Leveson.
Or he could get on with running country, but no, you’re right, emails he didn’t give to another superfluous waste of money public inquiry are much more important.
Sorry Rebekah.
Phone hacking is illegal and covered by existing laws – if they broke the law, prosecute them – why does there need to be a £4m+ public inquiry for that?
Besides, The Sun can barely be considered adequate toilet paper let alone a newspaper.
Murder is also illegal, but you still need proof. You can’t just prosecute someone for nothing, and if he’s innocent, surely giving those emails would clear things up, no?
It’s wouldn’t exactly put him out of time, he could forward them on the plane back from selling weapons to rich Saudis, for example.
Leveson is a result of alleged criminal activity by ‘journalists’ not a criminal investigation into it, and it has the sole responsibility of making recommendations into the future conduct of the media. It has no potential whatsoever in relation to prosecutions or criminal investigations – it is a poorly attempted excessively bloated showtrial set-up by politicans partly as retribution for the publishing of the MP expenses.
I want to see some screen shots of the UI.
Please tell me they didn’t just give him an Etch a Sketch
http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Etch%20A%20Sketch
Yeah, politicians these days seem to have a grasp of a huge wealth of facts and figures. This just sounds like a way of making sure they get their daily dose.
I saw a photo of Osborne’s desk once, he had a two-screen Bloomberg terminal set up for his personal use. That’s $1,500 per month right there.
I think it’s probably worth it for the man in charge of money for the entire country to have eyes on the markets in real time…
$1500 a month really isn’t that much in the scheme of things.
I actually agree, which is why I’m not against the concept of this ‘app’ either. Just look at it as an expense that the whole nation benefits from.
Yep, having major national KPIs on one screen, updated in real time on a portable device that the PM (or an aide) can have on him at all times seems like a good idea to me too.