An online notebook
An online notebook
“The new Government must draw on the power of institutional memoryā¬” Time and again, National Audit Office reports contain universally similar themes. Over-optimistic delivery plans mean budgets get burnt, deadlines are missed, governance is ineffective. # “Building visual literacy: Makingā¦
I’m back! First daily note in a while. Hope you are as pleased with me as I am š The blog has been rehosted, meaning I can save a bit of money shutting down an old hosting account. Have alsoā¦
Things I’ve seen that are worth sharing. Exciting next steps for Local Digital and Cyber – Local Digital Collaboration Unit The Local Digital and Cyber teams are going to be making some exciting changes over the next few months, backedā¦
Things I’ve seen that are worth sharing. The Policymaking / DDAT Divide – Jerry Fishenden Despite politiciansā grand ambitions for DDaT since at least 1996, itās had relatively little impact on radical government renewal and reform. Yet the political ambitionā¦
Things I’ve seen that are worth sharing. The next ten-years of digital government – Scott Colfer For what itās worth, my instinct is that the NHS might be the place that leads (by doing) the settler phase over the nextā¦
As mentioned in this post, I have started to find some time to read a bit more, and to bookmark useful stuff. Here’s what I have found in recent days (if I am honest, less than I would have expectedā¦
We first talked about updating the service standard around a year ago. Since then, weāve talked to hundreds of people in central and local government. Itās still a work in progress, but we think weāre getting close to a finalā¦
The objective of the survey was to understand current activity across government in what might be termed new or emerging technologies that are related to digital or information technologies. Loosely defined, these are new technologies that do not currently haveā¦
We need to prepare for a world where people might not access GOV.UK through their computer or smartphone, but could be using Alexa, Google Assistant or some technology that hasnāt even been created yet. We need to make GOV.UK understandableā¦
Transformation is a world away from simply polishing the way things are currently done (the ālipstick on pigsā approach ā the tired web- and form-based service design ethos of the past few decades, stuck Groundhog Day-like inside the broken silosā¦