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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...their vital role in the future of government as a platform as Pete Herlihy wrote just the other day, the status tracking and notifications platform team is working together with...
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
...on the way GDS does things. The biggest eye openers for me were the Service Assessments and Spend Control reviews. I’d have thought these were just guidelines services had to...
Data as a public asset
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People and skills
...Innovation Group, the Data Science Partnership convened by Melanie Dawes and Richard Sargeant who leads GDS’s work on the Performance Platform and Data Science, have been doing excellent work on...
That was 400 days of delivery
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Digital strategy, GDS team, People and skills, Sprint, Transformation
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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...responsible for benefits including Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Jobmatch, is critical to that. We need expertise and ambition to make a difference to millions of people. For years, our services...
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...
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