Daily notes for 19 September 2023

Redesigning the DDaT Capability Framework. Can data help me solve this problem? Dorset Council claims progress with roll out of digital social care records. “Elon Musk: Social media platform X could go behind paywall” Shoulda woulda coulda. People need to stop reporting on what this man says and focus on what he does. “Why Voice … Keep reading

Daily note for 12 September 2023

“It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy” – somewhat concerning. Love this, eccentric bringing back to life of ancient, almost useless technology. Beautiful. Lovely reflections from Tim Davies, someone I don’t speak to much these days but remember very fondly from the wild west early days of social … Keep reading

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 has remained fairly constant during these 26 years: to ensure users are the focus, not … Keep reading

Understanding data maturity with Ben Proctor

I had enormous fun last week chatting with Ben Proctor from Data Orchard about the concept of data maturity in organisations. Data Orchard have identified 5 stages of data maturity, each of which describe the extent to which an organisation uses data to improve the way it works. The stages are: unaware, emerging, learning, developing and mastering. In this … Keep reading