An online notebook
An online notebook
There was a debate raging late last week about the needs of digital in local government (again). I wrote up some thoughts to share with everyone – I was feeling somewhat limited by the 140 character confines of Twitter –…
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…
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…
A key role for any CDO in an organisation is looking for, and creating, alignment. The obvious one in the digital sphere is looking for alignment between the organisation’s preferred outcomes, and the needs of the people who use its…
I had a very interesting time at the Digital Evolution unconference and networking evening this week – wonderfully hosted by the Tinder Foundation and Google and with the irrepressible Will Perrin at the helm. Sadly I couldn’t make it to…
I’ve done a fair bit of councillor training on digital in the past. Every time it focuses on social media, digital engagement and how members can use the web to interact with the public. It usually goes away, people have…
When I delivered the Civil Service Learning digital engagement for policymakers course with Steph Gray, Steph put in a really neat slide which explained that different people have different needs from any one engagement exercise. Some people are happy to…
There’s an interesting bit of open policy work going on at the moment with the Deputy Prime Minister’s office working with the Policy Lab and Open Policy Making team, who are both based at the Cabinet Office. I’m lucky enough…
Recently on my visits to councils and to conferences, and in the conversations I have with people across the public sector, leadership in digital has been identified as an issue. I think the problem is that within many organisations, there’s…
An ongoing debate this. Ben Proctor has had his say recently, and it feels fairly sensible. There are two issues at stake here – one is whether some kind of ‘GDS’ for local government is needed; second is whether we…