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Creating better software with agile, devops, etc
There’s loads of great digital transformation nuggets in here, from Coté.
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
LINK: “Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess”
A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you’ll get some amazing features. It will have a stellar screen, top-flight camera, gobs of storage, and an absolutely atrocious texting experience. Original:
LINK: “The Right Way to Build an Online Community”
These products have come to be called ‘social media,’ but that’s not what Flickr was. Flickr was an online community. The reason they started calling it social media is because you can sell media. You can sell column inches, you…
LINK: “Smart London Camp 2018”
Yesterday [Rob Miller] joined a large group of people whose idea of the best way to spend a beautiful sunny Saturday was to gather together in London’s City Hall and discuss ideas for ways that London can get the most…
LINK: “Do you need a blockchain?”
Blockchain technology is set to have a profound impact on a wide variety of industries, ranging from capital markets to the music business. While some use cases may seem obvious, the technology is still surrounded by its fair share of hype and…
LINK: “Introducing the three C’s of Responsible Technology”
More than ever, we are aware of the need for better practices to address key challenges and tensions between technology and society. Doteveryone has been working on making the consumer tech industry more responsible and accountable to society for over…
LINK: “Defining digital standards for the NHS”
With the particular needs of healthcare users and NHS having a strong, trusted brand, we’re noticing more and more that we need to go beyond the GDS standard and define our own universal method. Original:
LINK: “Can government stop losing its mind?”
Can government remember? Is it condemned to repeat mistakes? Or does it remember too much and so see too many reasons why anything new is bound to fail? Original:
LINK: “The wellsprings of UK digital reform part 1 – the backstory”
While there are some great pockets of work taking place to deliver better public services, the UK government’s overall attempts at technology-enabled, or “e-government” or “digital”, reform appear to be struggling to achieve and sustain the benefits promised at the…
Implementing digital civic infrastructure
I’ve banged on about this before, but then that’s because I think it is pretty important. To quickly recap – digital civic infrastructure is an idea I have been thinking about for some time as a means through which local…