Author: Matt Jukes

  • Paris: Graffiti Paradis

    I worked out it had been 25 years since I last visited Paris — it was a Sixth Form school trip so my memories are pretty vague anyway — so I decided that as part of my break from work to de-stress a bit I’d give it a go. I had two main reasons; (1) I wanted to try…

  • 26 JULY 2015 #JUKESIEJOBS

    26 JULY 2015 #JUKESIEJOBS

    A nice mix this week of employers across the ‘Internet of Public Service’ and actually a few outside London for a change. I don’t know much about Pobble but love the idea of their site and I’m always excited to see what Futuregov are up to. The BBC bringing in a user researcher at Creative…

  • Three posts that influenced my ideas on the ‘web of data’

    Three posts that influenced my ideas on the ‘web of data’

    One of the benefits of having a bit of time off (and being banned from Slack, Bugherd, email etc) is that I am getting a little bit of time to step back and think through some of the things that I wanted to achieve on the ‘Beta & beyond’ that somewhat get pushed to the…

  • The Internet of Public Service – a talk idea

    The Internet of Public Service – a talk idea

      I’m giving a talk at (R)evolution in September and I’ve decided to try something new and a bit different from my usual talk about working at ONS and doing the digital thing in the civil service. Though I imagine that will get referenced. Last year I wrote this post about the idea of the…

  • Learning about open leadership

    Learning about open leadership

    My favourite principle from GDS is the tenth; Make things open – it makes things better  Some might suggest I embraced this concept before GDS were a twinkle in Martha’s eye 🙂 It was something I encouraged at Jisc setting up their blog network and back in the mists of time I remember Joss Winn…