Digital by Default

Category: work

  • Open Singularity – Civil Service Innovation Challenge

    Open Singularity – Civil Service Innovation Challenge

    This morning I came across this Civil Service Innovation Challenge that offers the opportunity to win a trip to California to undertake the Singularity University ‘Executive Program’. Singularity University is a slightly odd Silicon Valley corporate learning start-up with some big name corporate backers and some high profile founders. I’m not sure it would usually…

  • Au Revoir Ampp3d

    Au Revoir Ampp3d

    Sure it had a stupid name and couldn’t possibly be accused of presenting a neutral point of view with how it presented the data but I am very sorry to see Ampp3d close it’s doors at Trinity Mirror. There is no doubt it was a massive influence on my team at ONS when it came…

  • 19 problems & Github ain’t one..

    19 problems & Github ain’t one..

    Ben Balter has the rather impressive job title of  ‘Government Evangelist’ at Github. He was one of the original Presidential Innovation Fellows in the U.S. and been a vocal advocate for a move towards a more digital by default federal government from within the White House and in his time at Github. He knows of…

  • [dot] Cotton anniversary

    [dot] Cotton anniversary

    Tomorrow I will have been working for ONS two years exactly. This basically means I am still barely seen as more than a newbie in ONS time but given my professional history it is quite an achievement for me 🙂 It has been quite a journey over the course of those 24 months. It hasn’t…

  • My Ambitions for the Beta

    My Ambitions for the Beta

    The development team is in the building and the tip tapping of coding on custom keyboards fills the air so it is about time I tried to articulate some personal ambitions for this project. [These aren’t necessarily the corporate objectives – though there is some cross over and clearly our commitment to ‘user driven development’…