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What If…? The proposed ‘Office for Students’ was treated like a start-up* from day one
Last week the ‘Higher Education Green Paper’ was released for consultation. You can read a useful summary over on Times Higher and a whole bunch of useful analysis at WonkHE (with my former colleague David Kernohan contributing some great stuff.) Now I don’t really have anything to say about the paper itself (other than the…
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The Book of GDS (and beyond)
A couple of tweets this week led to me buying ‘The Book of OpenStreetmap’ — a collection of interviews from founding contributors to OSM by the original founder Steve Coast. It is an interesting read but I found it even more interesting for reasons outside of the content. I really want to write a book. Not for…
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10 job vacancies I found interesting this week
1 November 2015 Director of DigitalGovernment Digital ServiceLondon Portfolio Manager(s)Open Knowledge FoundationRemote Senior Programme Manager (Digital Education Programme)NestaLondon Innovation ExecutiveOrdnance SurveySouthampton Head of DigitalNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Digital Product ManagerTfLLondon Digital DirectorThe National ArchivesLondon Digital Product DesignerFuturelearnLondon User ResearcherCo-operative Group DigitalManchester Senior Digital Product ManagerIOP PublishingBristol
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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…
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[from the archive] Don’t do Agile. Be agile. Or something.
‘from the archive’ are posts appropriate to this blog I am adding from my earlier Medium writings or blogposts elsewhere — avoiding the worst of it 🙂 First published October 31st, 2015. I’ve read a couple of great posts about ‘agile’ in the last week or so — it is like 2008 all over again! First Paul Downey strayed from…
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