Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Birth of Betagov

    So yesterday evening Betagov was born. It began not with a bang but with a Twitter 🙂 A virtual torrent of tweets filled my timeline last night at a little after 9pm as the new site became available and we all had a little play. I’m not going to write much here to today as…

  • Introducing #govwest

    Gov West is a halfday event on March 20th taking place as a part of the Bath Digital Festival that Mr Ellis is organising. It will consist of several short (20 mins-ish), case study talks from digital leaders in the public sector with a particular focus on speakers from the Westcountry. It is not an…

  • Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do – quick review

    A while ago I decided I was going to quit buying books by the big thinkers of the digital world. In my experience the books are inevitably too long and feel a little dated by the time they get released. Plus it always seems a weird way of consuming knowledge about this sort of thing…

  • Digitally mature management?

    As I have said before I think one of the great achievements of the Government Digital Service, and the report from Martha Lane Fox that spawned it, isn’t the commitment to open source/standards or recruiting such a great team of designers and developers (though they are both great) but the fact that Mike Bracken was…

  • #UKGC12 – User centric

    Yesterday I attended the 5th (I think) UK Govcamp at the very swanky Microsoft offices in central London. As usual it was a great day and went a long way to refreshing my passion for the work I do (something that has been waning for a little while). I made a major effort this year…