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Guest Post: Culture, context and ways of working
...place to work, Square was very impressive. Not just because of the sleek, downtown San Francisco loft-style office, but the culture of complete openness. Everyone receives the board papers and...
Talking about big data (without talking about Big Data)
This is the first in a series of posts about technology trends and seeing them in action in the US. Here, Andy Beale, Director of Common Technology Services within the Office of the CTO, talks about big data and …
Guest Post: Meeting the technology needs of the Department for Communities and Local Government
...solution with High Speed 2 (with whom we share a building) and tablet & homeworker solutions that are among the most flexible in government. Social media and instant messaging are...
This week in tech links: make-up from a 3D printer and a re-designed axe
...warning of the dangers of keeping our heads down, starting at the many screens in our lives. I tend to think we can have both a rich online life, and...
Guest post: You’ve got two hours to fix government IT
We asked Elizabeth Atkin, a civil servant at the Ministry of Justice, to write about her experience at the inaugural Technology Workshop last week.
This week in tech links: Augmented Reality helmets and electricity-generating graphene
In the future, firefighters will use Augmented Reality to help them with their dangerous jobs. I don’t know about anybody else, but I’d probably walk around with one of these fancy hats before I walked around in Google glasses. Google …
Guest post: Lessons from the New World
...from a number of components, all built with the fundamental assumption that hardware will fail, but that the overall system should keep on functioning. Companies like Cloudera, Pivotal and HortonWorks...
Remediating legacy technology: a success story from the Department for Work & Pensions
The VME (Virtual Machine Environment) operating system was created by the company ICL in the 1970s. In many ways, it is a great story about British technology.
Inaugural Technology Workshop for civil servants
It’s critically important to us that civil servants have the best tools to do their jobs. It is equally important that our technology is based around user needs. We know this isn’t the case now, as demonstrated by comments from …
Guest post: mapping the way to a strategy
James Findlay, Technology Leader for the Department for Transport and Chief Information Officer of High Speed Two, shares his thoughts on ‘mapping’ as a technique to define strategy.