Digital by Default

Tag: Government

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs — 17/09/17

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Sign up for it as an email every Sunday afternoon! [01] Product OwnerAvon and Somerset PoliceBristolSalary: £35,451 — £38,538Closing date: 28/09/2017 [02] Deputy Director, Product…

  • One Year Later

    Friday was exactly a year since I finished at the ONS. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently — partly because I’ve caught up with Laura a bit lately and partly as my recent diabetes diagnosis sheds a bit of light on how I was feeling back then as well. I remain very proud of the…

  • Tin man

    10 years of making spelling mistakes on the world wide web Today is the 10 year (tin) anniversary of my first ‘proper’ blogpost. I had actually been playing around for a year or so using Typepad but on the 27th August 2007 I wrote my first post on the new WordPress blog network I had launched…

  • Why even bother with a user-centred, digital government?

    Responding to Tom Mr Steinberg has just published a blogpost about the missing ‘why?’ of the drive towards this user-centred, digital government so many of us have committed ourselves to in recent years. He has identified five values that drives him and expands on each; Compassion Fairness The value of government itself Respect Transparency Tom asked…

  • The Gov(tech)ernor

    So these days I am apparently in the business of GovTech. People write reports on it and create lists about it. It is thing. Funnily enough six months ago when I was working in government technology I never heard anyone refer to #govtech (on this side of the Atlantic anyway) but here we are. It…