Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • [day note] The National Archives, Kew

    Today I was very pleased to take up the kind invitation from John Sheridan to visit his team at Kew. John is still relatively new to his role as Director of Digital at the National Archive but his work on Legislation.gov.uk was extremely influential on our thinking during the early stages of the ONS website…

  • Friday footnotes 4

    Friday footnotes is a weekly list of links related to product management and design in the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie [1] Meet Matchbot, our prototype Slack bot — Dan Williams writes about a little experiment the dotEveryone team are doing to test out some ideas in code — something that I think is too often missing…

  • [from the archive] The Internet of Public Service

    Talk at Revolution Conference, Shrewsbury, September 2015 Now it is clear that the ‘Internet of Things’ is the latest ‘next big thing’ — Gartner, those bastions of forward thinking, are suggesting that 25 billion ‘things’ will be connected to the internet by 2020. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2905717 — another study says 90% of cars will be internet connected by the same year.…

  • [What is it you actually do?] Sharon Dale

    ‘What is it you actually do?’ is a series of blogpost ‘interviews’ that ask interesting folk working on digital products in and around public service the age old question — ‘what is it you actually do?’. Shamelessly copying from Lifehacker’s ‘How I work’ series and ‘The Set Up’ blog. Who are you and what do you do…

  • Environmental Alert

    Over the last couple of years I’ve spoken at a lot of local events and chatted to a lot of Bristol/Bath based digital folk whose interest was piqued by the work of GDS and the stories I told of working in the new, digital-by-default(ish), Civil Service. However most of them couldn’t be convinced to travel…