Dear Minister,
Full disclosure — I work for the Government Digital Service but am replying here purely in a personal capacity.
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills recently launched a consultation on the Land Registry’s future operating model.
I have recently changed jobs at GDS and am now working on the very early stages of an equivalent to our public registers…
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…
I recently attended an evening session at the Institute for Government where Beth Noveck was speaking. Gavin Freeguard of the IfG has done a great right-up (including linking to video of the session) but I think there’s enough in my own notes to rate a…
Edited to add a link to Tom Steinberg’s essay A Campaigning Organisation for Technologists Who Worry About a Coming Wave of Technology-Driven Unemployment and Insecurity. While not dedicated specifically to universal basic income it does ask…
There’s a huge amount going on in the civic tech space. Governments are rapidly adopting digital technology via organisations like GDS, PDS, USDS, AusDS (I could go on, a lot). Political parties are likewise moving to interact with their…
For a while now I’ve been taking notes on some of the great books, training courses and other things I’ve found useful.
Feel free to read, give me feedback on and either share this blog post or this index page.
I was very pleased to discover that the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills is currently running a consultation on the future of terms and conditions (Ts&Cs) which will be open until the 25th of April.
I recently attended an event at the Institute for Government where Beth Noveck discussed the use of citizen expertise in government. I still may do a blog post of my thoughts on the event but in the meantime Gavin Freeguard of the IfG has produced an excellent one…
