Digital by Default

Tag: Open Source

  • Weak code ownership or innersource

    When I was at the BBC one of the goals of the Datalab was to look into embracing a ‘weak code ownership’[1] or ‘inner source’[2] model for our work. Broadly this meant working according to open source principles by allowing other teams to use and contribute to your code as long as they abide by…

  • Seven: Up

    Here we are again. Season 7. Has any show ever been good at this point? Suggestions on a post-card (or comment). I’m a bit fried to be be honest — it has been a slightly crazy few days. Good but crazy. I was in New York for a few days (I attended a great event which I…

  • [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.…