Housekeeping
I’ve been making a few changes around here! This blog has existed in one form or another for a very long time – since September 2004 in fact. It’s a bit of a hotch-potch of content, because as well as…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
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DDAT or D:DDAT?
Just a quick post on a rather semantical topic! The phrase DDAT – standing for digital, design and technology – has become a commonly adopted bit of industry jargon in government circles, to describe the work that people do in…
Interesting links 25 March 2022
Things I’ve seen that are worth sharing. Exciting next steps for Local Digital and Cyber – Local Digital Collaboration Unit The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few months, backed…
Interesting links 18 March 2022
Things I’ve seen that are worth sharing. The Policymaking / DDAT Divide – Jerry Fishenden Despite politicians’ grand ambitions for DDaT since at least 1996, it’s had relatively little impact on radical government renewal and reform. Yet the political ambition…
Open source revenues and benefits
Am really chuffed to be a part of this project, funded by the team at DLUHC, to see how portable the in-house developed revenues and benefits system from Sedgemoor council is. We will also be looking at the licensing and…
Interesting links 11 March 2022
Things I’ve seen that are worth sharing. The next ten-years of digital government – Scott Colfer For what it’s worth, my instinct is that the NHS might be the place that leads (by doing) the settler phase over the next…
How can organisational leaders support digital?
Eddie Copeland off of LOTI and I recorded a bunch of videos just after Christmas, aimed at senior-ish folk in councils who want to get up to speed on all things digital, data and technology. Here’s one about what I…
I’ve joined Made Tech!
I’m really pleased to be able to say that since last week, I have been working at Made Tech! For the last decade or so I have been working with local government to modernise the way things get done: from…
Getting started with user research workshop recording
The workshop that Lizzie and I delivered went down pretty well, I think. You can find out for yourself by watching it back. It’s a quick canter through different methods of undertaking user research, aimed at those new to the…
Digital age operating models, with Eddie Copeland
One of the elements of the Loosemore definition of digital that doesn’t get as much coverage as the rest is the bit about business, or operating, models. That’s probably because it’s really hard. So I loved having this chat with…