Same name, new ambitions
Same name, new ambitions
A new chapter begins. We unveil the name and vision for the new digital centre for government.
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...
October Teacamp: A perspective from Baden-Wuerttemberg
...place trust in their staff but make sure that everyone is educated about the appropriate use, restrictions and risks in their work area. We also talked about the Home Office’s...
Why do people need government department websites?
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This is the second in a series of posts about how I am taking forward objective two of the single domain project: specifically the “private beta test of a shared ‘corporate’ publishing platform aimed at replacing most of the activity …
Holding the fort: developing a new Civilservice.gov.uk
...is, what it does and the codes it is bound by. The Civil Service: serves the Government of the day, does not automatically change when the Government does and is...
Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, attends seminar at No. 10 Downing Street
...the example of Recovery.gov in the US as just one of over 100 Government sites using cloud hosting. Set against these experiences and the use of cloud solutions by GDS...
What is that beautiful house?
Open Source Content Management Systems like Drupal and WordPress have been gaining a lot of ground in recent years, with governments around the world adopting them. Drupal in particular has attracted a lot of fanfare as numerous high profile US …
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...
Facebook and Government - A workshop
...City Council, David Bailey from Staffordshire Police and my own colleague from DFID: Simon Davis. Hard to know where to start with the Facebook hints – but in essence, the...
What a great turnout for the first Agile Tea Camp
...set the scene to Agile Tea: simply, an opportunity for people that work with Agile principles to get together, informally and open to everyone, on the third Thursday of every...
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 …
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