Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Code for America: Fixing Procurement

    Interesting series of posts over on the Code for America blog about ‘fixing procurement‘. Some of the terminology might be different but I think anyone working in the UK public sector will recognise  the issues discussed. Related just this week the G-Cloud, the UKs own attempt to solve some of the procurement problems, won an award…

  • 52: Week Four

    A very civilised four day week this week so this is going to be a short update for a short week. This week was very meeting heavy – even compared to previous weeks. Time spent at my desk was a rare and wonderful treat but for the most part the meetings continue to add useful…

  • Anker Astro2: the commuters friend

    My life is basically a series of trips on public transport punctuated by occasional other activity (work, social life etc). My current job is responsible for a minimum of 13 hours a week of commuting – the vast majority of that on a train route that has no wifi, minimal 3G connectivity and worst of…

  • #opentech 2013 – a game of two halves

    Yesterday I attended #opentech (well some of it) for I think the third time. It is something of a unique event these days I think – on paper it looks like a pretty normal tech event but when you look a bit closer you see just how special it is. In some ways it feels…

  • 52:Week Three

    My 3rd week showed no sign of letting up with the learning curve – though there was less travel this week as I skipped my trip to Titchfield and am working from home today (even if that proved to be a challenge – the problem is always the last thing you check and I was…