Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Jukesie’s Law

    Jukesie’s Law

    Arthur C. Clarke famously had three laws. Now Cory Doctorow has come up with his own trinity. So I have decided to put my own stake in the ground. I only have one law at the moment but you have to start somewhere. I am also pretty sure that I have stolen it from somebody…

  • Robo Reporting

    Robo Reporting

      A major preoccupation of my day job is finding out ways to provide as much data as possible in open, reusable formats. In fact probably the only other thing that occupies more of my cognitive activity is the challenge of the user experience of getting people to that data. As we start to make…

  • Au Revoir Ampp3d

    Au Revoir Ampp3d

    Sure it had a stupid name and couldn’t possibly be accused of presenting a neutral point of view with how it presented the data but I am very sorry to see Ampp3d close it’s doors at Trinity Mirror. There is no doubt it was a massive influence on my team at ONS when it came…

  • 19 problems & Github ain’t one..

    19 problems & Github ain’t one..

    Ben Balter has the rather impressive job title of  ‘Government Evangelist’ at Github. He was one of the original Presidential Innovation Fellows in the U.S. and been a vocal advocate for a move towards a more digital by default federal government from within the White House and in his time at Github. He knows of…

  • [dot] Cotton anniversary

    [dot] Cotton anniversary

    Tomorrow I will have been working for ONS two years exactly. This basically means I am still barely seen as more than a newbie in ONS time but given my professional history it is quite an achievement for me 🙂 It has been quite a journey over the course of those 24 months. It hasn’t…