An online notebook
The Government Digital Service has released a big list defining the skills needed for transformation. It’s certainly comprehensive. It’s fair to say that it is more a list of skills that people need rather than the details of what goes into those skills, or how you start to equip a team with them. However, for … Keep reading
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 – and I may as well post them here too. The GDS has set out, in … Keep reading
Euan Semple writes: I have always said that the first step to real collaboration, as opposed to just having a shared space to stick your unreadable documents, is having the self awareness, the humility, and the courage to admit that you need help. Too right! Back when I was a local government officer, I used … Keep reading
Thanks to the top people at Learning Pool, here’s a great video of Donald Clark talking about learning theory through the ages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7t4uDHQqWk
I’ve seen a few comments bouncing about Twitter and other places debating the meaning of the word digital, and why it hasn’t caught on in some places at all. I’ve also seen some people saying that ‘digital’ is an unhelpful term, given the broad range of things it seems to describe. I’d agree that it … Keep reading