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An online notebook
Ed Zitron: The people running the majority of internet services have used a combination of monopolies and a cartel-like commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking to make war with the user, turning the customer into something between a lab rat and an…
Charlie Fountaine kicked off⬈ one of those conversations on LinkedIn: Why isn’t there a cookie-cutter website for local councils in the UK?…Imagine if we had a common system, similar to central government’s approach, with shared components and a unified content…
August was not the chilled out month I was hoping for! Took a week off for staycationing but otherwise was nose to the grindstone on really exciting work, but work nonetheless. Hoping to be able to poke my head up…
This post and all its contents is published under a creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Find out more⬈. I’m doing a fair bit of strategy work with councils at the moment, and have hit upon a framework for putting them together…
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) In the LGA’s recently published white paper on the future of local government, there’s a very interesting line about digital. Just the one line, admittedly, but I think it is fair to say that it is doing…
(Previously published on LinkedIn and in my newsletter.) Following on from previous posts during the Great Local GDS Flurry from a few weeks ago (has everyone else moved on? Well I haven’t!), I thought I would follow up on one…
This from Dai Vaughan is really excellent on how technology failures keep damaging people’s lives, and how frustrating it is that the answers to this problem are well known, but unevenly implemented. Mike Bracken’s take on Horizon. Still noodling on…
CIPFA have published a report entitled Exploring blockchain technologies for collaboration and partnerships [PDF warning]. The very first statement of the executive summary is problematic. Blockchain technology has emerged as a promising solution for collaboration and partnerships, providing a secure…
Original post from Gavin Beckett With a very small number of exceptions, the established local government technology market is populated by companies that fundamentally do not understand user research. They do not start with user needs or design great user…
The end of the week and time to do some more linkery. Hope you enjoy them, and don’t forget to pass them along to anybody who might benefit. Digital Delivery Manager – my old team at Adur & Worthing are recruiting…