Enabling government as a platform?

On Saturday at GovCamp 2015, Mike Bracken announced the enabling strategy, the approach GDS is developing to deliver something they call government as as platform. Here’s the nice, short video that explains it: Now, this is very sensible and it is hard to argue against it. The one quibble I have is whether this really … Keep reading

The Social Media Exchange is coming up!

  I’m really pleased to be helping out my good fried Jude Habib with the Social Media Exchange event, which is coming up early in February. There are still a few places available, so I thought I would let folk know about it here. Here’s the skinny: The Social Media Exchange (#SMEX15) takes place on … Keep reading

Bits and bobs for Monday 26 January 2015

An occasional effort to link to interesting things I have seen. Not convinced about the format yet – let me know what you think. The digital democracy report was published this morning by the Speaker’s commission on the topic. If you like listening to podcast interviews, you’ll love interviewed.io. Small Pieces, Loosely Joined is an interesting report … Keep reading

Could I make my blog my livelihood?

Bit navel-gazey this post, but bear with me, and I would love your feedback. So, as mentioned previously, I am looking for a job. The main reason for this is that I want to be able to focus on one thing, and not have the freelancer’s dilemma of always looking for the next thing while … Keep reading