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 …
Introducing the Needotron: working out the shape of the product
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...It is essential that the shape of the product will continually iterate throughout its life, as will its underlying code, design, user interface and content. Starting the long journey from...
The First AgileTea Meeting
...regular basis over tea and cake. Each AgileTea meeting will have guest speakers, anyone can nominate themselves and it is open to all who wants to share ideas, chat with...
Accessibility and the Single Government Domain
Hello! I'm Léonie Watson. I'm working with Government Digital Service (GDS) on the accessibility of the beta site. This is the first of a series of accessibility focused posts I'll be putting together over the next few months.
Teacamp September 2011: Open Knowledge Foundation and Scraperwiki
...Beeman and @GlynWintle talking about @Linkedgov • @StevenRWilkes from the Home Office, talking about the digital engagement strand of the government ICT strategy Next teacamps are: 6 October, 3 November,...
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