Marcus Povey's Page

A group for those who twitter: suggestions, tips and discussion

Hi All,I'm Marcus Povey, an Oxford based technical strategist and entrepreneur.I was previously the Senior Architect on the Elgg project and now run a small software development and consultancy company.I also ran Barcamp Transparency (an open governmental transparency and direct democracy symposium) held in the Oxford Club last summer (and hopefully this summer as well!)I am very interested in discussing policies that might help small businesses!See More

This group is aimed at all who have started a business and are running their own business.It is for enterprising Lib Dems across the country-from people working at home to employing under 200 people.See More

discussing new and better ways of marketing them

NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" were the most visible part. We are entirely independent.

That the Libdems don't have an IT policy to speak of is an opportunity - it means that policies can be decided by contacting people who know what they're talking about (ORG, MySociety, internet & entrepreneur communities) rather than having a wholly political / lobbyist driven policy.I hope you don't mind me getting the ball rolling with a few thoughts off the top of my head in no particular order :1) Government IT projects should be open sourced - anything that receives public funds should…See More

Lib Dems for some decent IT Policy - open standards, decent project management, re-skilling local and national government in technology - less throwing cash at EDS et al, fair and good value tendering.