People and skills

Data as a public asset

Posted by: Mike Bracken, Posted on: 28 March 2015 - Categories: People and skills

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

Posted by: Mike Bracken, Posted on: 10 February 2015 - Categories: Assisted digital, Digital engagement, Digital Marketplace, Digital strategy, GDS team, GOV.UK, GOV.UK departments and policy, GOV.UK Verify and identity assurance, Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), People and skills, Sprint 15, 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

Posted by: Mike Bracken, Posted on: 15 January 2015 - Categories: People and skills

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. …