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Guest Post: Culture, context and ways of working
In the second in our series of reports from the West Coast, Tim Moss, CEO of Companies House, tells us about ways of working US-style. I’m not a techie, so I was particularly interested in the culture of the Silicon …
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
Darren Scates, Technology Leader at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), shares the work that he and his team have been doing to meet DCLG’s technology needs. In his blog in January, Sir Bob Kerslake said that he …
This week in tech links: make-up from a 3D printer and a re-designed axe
For various reasons it’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote up the various tech news that has caught my eye. That doesn’t mean I’ve not been looking though! I really love new solutions to old problems, 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
Kevin Cunnington, Digital Transformation Director General at the Department for Work and Pensions, shares his observations from a recent trip to the U.S. I’ve just returned from California, where I spent my time visiting Silicon Valley tech companies, looking for trends …
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.