Is ‘being a developer’ more difficult these days — or am I just old?

I seriously considered calling this “confessions of a lapsed professional software developer”. Back between 1995 and 2008 I was a professional developer, first with Nortel Networks and then Symbian and Nokia. I…

Should government donate more than code to open source software?

Caveat — I work for the Government Digital Service but this post is entirely my own opinions.

Like a huge number of other organisations around the world, the British government has benefited…

Digital democracy and user needs

I recently watched the following video from the Digital Leaders Programme.

BBC Click’s Kate Russell discussed Digital Democracy with Helen Milner (Tinder Foundation and The Digital Democracy Commission), Kulveer Ranger (Atos) and Anthony…

Child Safty Online : Consultation response

Dear Minister,

Full disclosure — I work for the Government Digital Service but am replying here purely in a personal capacity.

Some of my previous blog posts

I’ve picked up some new twitter followers recently — *waves* — so I thought I’d do a quick recap of some of my previous blog posts that I’ve particularly enjoyed writing.

In common with most folks I have a few areas of interest that I like to write…