An online notebook
An online notebook
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 upā¦
This post and all its contents is published under a creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Find out moreā¬. I’m doing a fair bit of strategy work with councils at the moment, and have hit upon a framework for putting them togetherā¦
(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 doingā¦
(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 oneā¦
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 onā¦
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 secureā¦
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 userā¦
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 ManagerĀ – my old team at Adur & Worthing are recruitingā¦
So, a little while ago I posted about government as a platform, and mentioned three main components that matter, particularly to us at Adur and Worthing with our approach. However, I’ve been involved in various conversations where I’ve been confusedā¦
I’ve always rather liked the title of Steph’s blog and how he gives us occasional updates on how his life outside of the government machine is going. His post-bureaucrat life seems to be going really well. I left government asā¦