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
...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,...
A brief overview of technology behind Alpha.gov.uk
The team share an overview of the technology used to develop Alpha.gov.uk.
Right to Data and the Protection of Freedoms Bill
...data will help citizens to make choices about their services and better enable them to converse and collaborate with Government. The Coalition Agreement stated that the Government will “create a...
Dr. Kieron O’Hara to lead transparency and privacy review
...part of the Transparency agenda. The Review will enable Government to ensure that on-going releases of data are done in a way that provides maximum transparency of data consistent with...
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