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Although the election meant that we went on a period of radio silence, there were a number of quite big decisions that came through right at the end of the parliament
Better for less
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Liam Maxwell, Posted on:
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Central Architecture, Common technology services, D5, Open standards, Reform, Security, Technology Leaders, Technology Transformation
As this Parliament draws to a close, in the Office of the CTO we have been looking back at the past four years. Our mission was to clear away the obstacles that prevented us and our colleagues in departments from …
Making document formats open, it makes them better
...created in. LibreOffice will be available online as a cloud service, with native support for ODF by the end of the year. The Minister for Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has...
Standards Hub: simpler and clearer
...had trouble navigating their way around the previous layout. Potential users also told us that they were discouraged from getting involved because the site was so confusing. We hope that...
Ways of working - experiments and odysseys
...might be applications and approaches that could make your work easier to do and much easier to share. So how was the clinic? I used a web-based presentation app called...
Learning from each other – the move to open formats
On 14 January we held our first Open Formats Clinic, with around 25 people joining from across government.
Open Standards Board: new appointees
Since its inception in April 2013, the Open Standards Board has been busy. It has selected 6 standards profiles: cross-platform character encoding, persistent resolvable identifiers, exchange of contact information, exchange...
10th ODF Plugfest: keeping track of progress
In July this year, the UK government selected an open standard to use for all editable documents created by government - Open Document Format (ODF). I blogged in November about...
Guest post: Adopting open document format in the Home Office
...Principles for adopting ODF The principles we’ve defined are: We must challenge ourselves to meet user needs more digitally, avoid using documents wherever possible and move information online. Our broader...