David Cameron – he who loves iPad games and considered banning social networks during the riots – has reportedly commissioned a purpose-built iPad app to help him track stats like crime, unemployment, medical waiting lists and more. And interestingly, it could be made public.
GigaOm says it has a separate source who confirms the report in The Times, despite the BBC being uncertain and TechCrunch calling it “idle chatter”.
Apparently the idea for Cameron’s one-stop, real-time data dashboard came while his advisors were on a trip to the US. Speculation suggests the app has already been in development for a couple of months.
It definitely wouldn’t be light reading, but I think I’d check it out. I imagine it would look something like Zite or Flipboard mixed with Google Analytics and Geckoboard. We shall see soon enough. [GigaOm]
Ozoneocean
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 6:35 PMYeah, he’s just another popularity driven politician.
This is hilariously stupidly transparent. He wants a program to reflect his party’s politics and polices in a good light. Tying it to popular technology like this would make him seem very modern and hip, when in reality it’d be the same tired of skewed stats people have been slinging to the public since Ramesses II was a baby, except this time the tablet’s made of Aluminium and glass, not clay.
Womp
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 10:07 PMOkay I know this is completely off topic but how is he making his index finger touch his wrist?