Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • GOVUK Design Principles – first thoughts

    Bluetacked to the wall next to my desk at work is a print out of the Fifteen Principles the BBC used for their BBC2.0 project back in 2007. They have followed me from job to job (and job to job!) ever since Tom Loosemore spoke at a JISC conference that year and introduced me to…

  • My Internet (sorta like Bens)

    Ben Terrett, who amongst other things is Head of Design at the Government Digital Service, linked to a blogpost he wrote in 2008 recently titled ‘My Internet‘. It struck a bit of a chord with me – especially as so little has changed in those three years and how much I agree with. Numbers 1…

  • Making the case for a FOSS CMS

    Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a project to make the case for using an open source CMS for a big project and I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve been doing here – nit sure how helpful it would be for anyone else though! The big glaring…

  • Back the Bid! Bringing Wikimania to Bristol

    Wikimania is the annual conference for the Wikimedia Foundation (so basically the Wikipedia conference). This year it is in Washington, D.C. and in previous years it has taken place in Haifa, Gdańsk, Buenos Aires, Alexandria, Taipei, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Frankfurt. The host city is chosen, not surprisingly, in an open, wiki-like manner by members of…

  • The Westeas (a Teacamp for the West)

    I have a feeling that there might be an opportunity to maintain some kind of community off the back of #govwest and while interest is high in public sector digital projects due to things like GOVUK but also as Carl mentioned in his talk the perception that web services might equal cost savings! One of…