This is the third in a series of posts sharing progress on how we are tackling objective two of the single domain 'beta' project: specifically the creation and test of a unified publishing platform capable of replacing many of the websites which …
Last Thursday, Chris Chant gave a talk at a cloud-computing event kindly hosted by the Institute for Government in London. Chris is an Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative, and spoke about …
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Have you ever wondered what being a social worker actually involves? Or what a fire-fighter does on an average shift? Or what it takes to run the busiest library in the country? Norfolk County Council gave the curious-minded a chance to find out on Tuesday 4 October 2011 when three of its Twitter accounts revealed what goes on in a working day in five very different areas. #nccourday
This is a guest post by Emma Mulqueeny (@hubmum), Director of Rewired State and one of the founders of the new Coding for Kids movement. Every year, we run Young Rewired State, a network of developers aged 18 and under …
A write-up of last week's Teacamp from Daniela Oellers: I attended last week’s Teacamp session on behalf of the Digital Engagement team at the Cabinet Office. My name is Daniela Oellers, PhD and I’m a German civil servant, working for …
This is the second in a series of posts about how I am taking forward objective two of the single domain project: specifically the “private beta test of a shared ‘corporate’ publishing platform aimed at replacing most of the activity …
On Friday 30th September we re-launched the website for the UK Civil Service. This site is the primary means of communicating what the constitutional role of the UK Civil Service is, what it does and the codes it is bound …
“Who knows where Amazon will be in 10 years? How could I have predicted 5 years ago that I would be standing here today, in No. 10 Downing Street, talking to the UK Government about the Cloud?” - Dr. Werner …
Open Source Content Management Systems like Drupal and WordPress have been gaining a lot of ground in recent years, with governments around the world adopting them. Drupal in particular has attracted a lot of fanfare as numerous high profile US …
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