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Launching Crown Hosting Data Centres
In July last year I wrote about Crown Hosting.
Let’s talk about IT services to meet user needs not procurement models
...like those through the Digital Marketplace. Capability A lot of comments rightly pointed out that capability is key to making IT services work - I couldn’t agree more. As we’ve...
Making your case for quality assurance
People often question the value of quality assurance.
Guest post: testing tools principles
...testing tools are the most effective. Open tools also avoid vendor lock-in and are cheaper than proprietary alternatives. The Government IT Strategy and Technology Code of Practice [https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/open-source.html] says open...
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...
Changing PSN compliance: from alpha to beta
...the next big step - it’s beta time. I mentioned in my last post that we’d extended the reach of the alpha to a number of other organisations, so we...
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...
Guest post: sustainability in government technology
The 2014 Greening Government: ICT annual report just published shows departments are on track for delivering the commitments to improve the sustainability of government technology set out in the 2011 Greening Government: ICT Strategy.
Introducing the U.S. Digital Service to GDS
Hadley Beeman by Harry Metcalfe James Duncan and I were invited recently to present to the U.S. Digital Service at their “off-site” meeting near Washington D.C. Sadly, a quick...
Changing PSN compliance: your questions answered
...a data owner, the Security Policy Framework (if you’re in central government) or the Data Protection Act, you’re likely to be operating under a number of different sets of obligations....