I became a civil servant by accident
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
Digital, Data and Technology
What’s happening with data
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Data, GDS team
...for government as a platform, including discovery projects and ideas for registers. That work was all useful, but it’s just the smallest of beginnings. Our aim, and Paul’s job, is...
Common Technology Services: technology is a tool, not a barrier
The technology you use to do your job should help you achieve more. When it doesn’t it’s frustrating.
Defra's opening up its data
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Technology
...working with the Open Data Institute to develop an organisational maturity model for open data. That will be used as a benchmark for future improvement plans. So far, open data...
Fail them faster
The other day, while driving along a local shortcut, I was faced with a ‘road closed’ sign and had to u-turn. Beyond the sign, there was no road where road had been yesterday.
Code Club at the Palace
...writing his first piece of code, and school children visiting No 10 to take part in the #HourofCode event. Not to be outdone, here's Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude...
When is it ok not to open all source code?
To meet the Digital By Default Service Standard, digital services have to ‘make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences.
Please release me: building a new statistical release calendar
Image courtesy of Simon Cunningham under a Creative Commons license. Sam Hall is Head of Publishing Operations at the Office for National Statistics. Statistics may be defined as "a body...
Helping government find user needs with analytics
Over the last couple of months we’ve run search engine optimisation and analytics workshop sessions for content designers in government departments and agencies.
Meet the IT network team
...the bat cave? Paul Collman So the bat cave, what we’re doing in there is, number one, build the network, and number two, run it; configuring network devices, implementing servers,...
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