Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Kiwi Conversations

    I’ve been in New Zealand (via Singapore) now for a few weeks. I came over to be part of the wedding of one of my close friends and if I am honest probably would never have made this rather intimidating trip otherwise. From afar New Zealand always looked like a beautiful country but the land…

  • Humans.txt

    I really wanted to add a /humans.txt file to the new ONS website but I never got around to it and then I ran away to the other side of the world for a bit. In lieu of doing it properly I just wanted to acknowledge everybody who made this site, that I am so…

  • Register revision

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/23676705565/ Last week the FCO, in partnership with the Data team at GDS, launched the first official ‘register’ for country names. This is a big achievement and is a significant step in building up the reality of ‘data as infrastructure’ in the UK. A year ago though I wouldn’t really have understood why this was…

  • Methods in our madness

    Back in the summer of 2014 I struggled through the procurement process and after one aborted attempt to use the original ‘Digital Services Framework’ ended up letting a contract via ‘GCloud’. What I was looking for was a small, multidisciplinary team that we could ‘in-source’ for a few weeks to build an Alpha prototype for…

  • Head of Innovation

    I was reading this interview with John Pullinger this afternoon. John is the National Statistician and as such the boss of my bosses, bosses, boss. I thought it did a good job at getting across how seriously the organisation is taking our ‘digital transformation’ but also how much there is to do and the scale…