Great short-ish summary of the rise of aggregating platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon from the ever-insightful Ben Thompson:
https://youtu.be/KE2w4lO9jSs
digital
Creating better software with agile, devops, etc
There’s loads of great digital transformation nuggets in here, from Coté.
https://speakerdeck.com/cote/digital-transformation-just-means-creating-better-software
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 out of the opportunities that ‘smart city’ developments offer.
Original: https://bytherye.com/smart-london-camp-2018-f8c9084aeea1
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: http://transformation.blog.nhs.uk/defining-digital-standards-for-the-nhs
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 pace and scale originally foreseen. And not for the first time – this has been a repeating cycle of optimism and disillusionment since the mid-1990s. So why is this?
Original: https://ntouk.wordpress.com/2018/04/19/the-wellsprings-of-uk-digital-reform-part-1-the-backstory/