Cambridge coding club for girls
Last month I was invited to give a talk as at the Cambridge University Computer Science lab.
People and skills
It’s not about us, it’s about collaboration
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A few years ago, I stood up at the first GDS all-staff meeting and told everyone there to “look sideways”, by which I meant: don’t get stuck in silos of your own making.
Hire the head and the body will follow
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Part of building government as a platform is people.
Learning by doing: to GDS and back again
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution max_d80 A few months ago I decided to take my experience as a communications manager in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and go on secondment to GOV.UK
Trans-Atlantic mind-melding with USDS and 18F
Last week we welcomed visitors from the US Digital Service and 18F over here for the best part of a week to swap stories, experiences, and mistakes.
Being a GDS technical architect - the first few weeks
Government technology boring? Not from where I’m standing.
Data as a public asset
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As some of you might have seen earlier in the week, I've just been appointed as the government's first Chief Data Officer.
That was 400 days of delivery
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Last week, we held an event: Sprint 15. It marked the culmination of the two-year transformation project that began with Sprint 13, when we made our plan clear: there were 400 days to transform government.
Jobs and digital
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This is something one of the GOV.UK team printed out, a simple word cloud that shows popular search terms on GOV.UK. What’s the thing people search for most? “Jobs.” Front and centre, far bigger than everything else on that page. …
Introducing the new digital inclusion team
We’re setting up a new team to work in government and beyond to increase the digital skills of the UK. Today the Department for Business Innovation and Skills released the Information Economy Industrial Strategy (IEIS) to boost growth opportunities for …
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