Making a difference by being open
Linda Humphries, who currently leads the open standards team in GDS, reflects on how things have changed in the approach to government technology through open standards over the fast 4-5 years.
Welcome back
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
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.
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...
GDS hosting the 10th ODF Plugfest
We announced in July that we had selected an open standard for sharing or collaborating on government documents – the Open Document Format (ODF).
Getting to grips with document formats
I’ve got one of those sorts of problems that is nice to have. One that shows me that there is energy and passion to do things right in government.
Unlocking government documents
Linda Humphries, Head of Open Standards in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, talks us through what the announcement about document formats means for Technology Leaders in government.