Mobile's role in bridging the digital divide
...digital world is dwindling, it’s important to remember that only 74% of adults have access to broadband at home, compared to 91% of adults who have a mobile phone. In...
Digital, Data and Technology
PM launches Tech City mobile app
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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This is a guest post from Alice Newton from the Innovation Team at GDS, Cabinet Office This morning David Cameron went to East London to mark a year of government support for Tech City, a cluster of tech, digital and …
SMEs – we need to talk
...many know it must. First off government has realised that it’s not that different. From now on if government wants some IT it needs to do what everyone else does...
Parliament Week hack day
Last weekend, I attended the closing session of a Parliamentary hack day run with Rewired State as part of Parliament Week 2011, a week of activities to engage with the public and encourage them to get involved in the UK's …
The Unacceptable
...it's time to make a change. The change we are already making is a big one. It will affect the way government buys IT, who we buy it from, how...
Listen to Chris Chant talking about G-Cloud
...as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative, and spoke about G-Cloud and what people can expect from it. For those who were unable to make the event, we recorded it...
Why I'm for #codingforkids
...of thoughts about what we could do and where we would need to focus to make a real difference for children. One of the things I asked everyone who attended...
Piloting new ways of measuring digital success
...to thoroughly road test the methodology. The survey ran for a week and collected 266 responses. Lessons learnt The pilot study returned a wealth of data, which we in the...
Building APIs, building on APIs
Public APIs are a vital feature of the modern web. Whether you're looking at the ecosystem of Twitter and Facebook apps, tools for managing auctions on ebay, or code for embedding Youtube videos in a blog post, clear ways of …
Teacamp September 2011: Open Knowledge Foundation and Scraperwiki
...Beeman and @GlynWintle talking about @Linkedgov • @StevenRWilkes from the Home Office, talking about the digital engagement strand of the government ICT strategy Next teacamps are: 6 October, 3 November,...
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