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 …
Digital, Data and Technology
The Unacceptable
The following is a post from Chris Chant, Executive Director in the Cabinet Office working as Programme Director for the G-Cloud initiative. So, the response to the talk I gave at the Institute for Government was quite interesting. It prompted …
Listen to Chris Chant talking about G-Cloud
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 …
Why I'm for #codingforkids
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 …
Piloting new ways of measuring digital success
This post was contributed by Joanne Inskip, Senior Customer Insight Manager at the Government Digital Service: At the start of 2011, the GDS Customer Insight team were given the task of developing a research methodology that could: Measure 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
Teacamp is an informal monthly meet-up of Government and non-government digerati, in a café drinking tea, hence ‘teacamp’. It began in 2008 as an offshoot of UKgovcamp and we’ve been meeting monthly since then. It is open to anyone and …
A brief overview of technology behind Alpha.gov.uk
The blank slate the Alpha.gov.uk team was handed was a huge privilege, but threw up some unusual technical challenges. Normally when embarking on building web apps you'd expect to have some sense of the corpus of content or the core …
Right to Data and the Protection of Freedoms Bill
Greater transparency is at the heart of our commitment to open up Government to greater scrutiny and allow the public to hold us to account. Improving access to public sector data will help citizens to make choices about their services …
Transparency and Privacy Review to be led by Dr. Kieron O’Hara
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has announced a review of the impact of Transparency on Privacy to inform the Government’s approach to the release of data as part of the Transparency agenda. The Review will enable Government to …
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