Local digital: SPRINT!I’ve been reflecting on how the GDS local government sprint goals that Theo Blackwell is leading on and after a conversation with the team…6d ago16d ago1
Government Digital Service reduxThis is a quick ‘hot take’ as the kids say about the launch of the new digital centre for government yesterday. There were only a few local…Jan 22Jan 22
Democratic dreamsAnother post with some dreams — very much from a personal perspective and as someone who has been thinking and researching in this space…Jan 19Jan 19
Devolution by designSpeaking very personally, I’m living with the tension between being passionately up for both local government reorganisation and devolution…Jan 19Jan 19
Digital dreamsIn my other start of the year post I talked about some of my democratic and design dreams for the year — in this one I want to share my…Jan 19Jan 19
Setting up 2025I’m having a slightly unusual start to the year as my husband and I (along with half of the rest of the country it seems!) have been…Jan 191Jan 191
Week (ish) notesI’ve been on holiday* and have used some of the time to catch up on things I wanted to capture here and perhaps come back to:Oct 21, 2024Oct 21, 2024
Shape the market and buy better stuffLast week we stopped the implementation of a major upgrade of a piece of legacy software as it really didn’t meet the hype it was sold with…Aug 29, 20241Aug 29, 20241
AI musing — time to get engagedHaving said goodbye to social media (sort of) and having largely bypassed the data hype cycle as being a technocratic rather than social…Feb 25, 20242Feb 25, 20242
Fantasy system…what would you dream?I have been pitching an idea for a while now which almost always lands well and which I can’t leave alone, so I thought I would put it out…Jan 7, 20244Jan 7, 20244