Tag Archives: transparency

G-Cloud take home thoughts from the second Tea Camp

This weekend will see the announcement of the names of more than 300 suppliers who have been successfully added to the G-Cloud Framework. In light of this exciting news, the second Tea Camp held yesterday at the National Audit Office … Continue reading

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Gov Camp 2012 – 15 take home pointers

GovCamp 2012 was awesome. With two days of packed and uber interesting un-conference style talks, coupled with an opportunity to talk to and debate with a whole host of varied people, the event was truly worth working on a Saturday … Continue reading

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5 ways to do better software demos

Software demos are often too long and they shouldn’t be. This great post from We Love Local Government hit a nerve. The post inspired us to set out some principles for how we demo. Our goal is simply to make … Continue reading

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Making open data more useful, usable and engaging

From Delib’s work in open data we suggest that for local authorities releasing the data is important, yet providing context to data released makes it useful, usable and engaging to the public. Continue reading

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Local Authorities, Government And Social Media

It’s funny how some ideas stay hidden for a long time, and then get mentioned by separate people in separate places all at the same time isn’t it? This idea’s one of those, and it’s a quick one really. Traditional … Continue reading

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Camden’s website re-design

Camden London Borough Council are currently re-designing their site in a very interesting and very transparent way. Learning perhaps from the public mistake of Birmingham and the private but altogether more serious mistakes that see council websites turn into cash … Continue reading

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How to make open government sustainable – SXSW round-up #1

If SXSW is geek central.  Then yesterday’s “In code we trust” session was geek government central.  And it was a really interesting session. Geeks in government is a pretty big thing these days – something proved by yesterday’s  “In code … Continue reading

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15 Ways PCTs Can Improve Consultation On Difficult Issues

Amongst the different public sector organisations, PCTs are very often responsible for decisions that affect huge numbers of people and cover issues that people feel strongly passionate about. These issues and decisions are often difficult. This makes it all the … Continue reading

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