Digital by Default

Category: events

  • Gov:West thoughts

    So despite promising myself I wouldn’t run any more events I had this nagging idea for a Govcamp inspired mini-conference (I bottled the unconference idea!) consisting of local speakers and the odd guest from the ‘smoke’. Thanks to some seed funding from the UKGovcamp gang and equally importantly the opportunity of making it a part…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Bathcamp 26: The spirit of openness

    I’ve signed up to ‘curate’ and speak at the next Bathcamp [5th Oct 8pm-10pm]and have put together an evening around this idea of  “the spirit of openness”.  Over the last couple of years I’ve become more and more interested in this slightly ‘wooly’ idea of the open web.  I dabbled with open education, open access and…