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BIS website grows up
There's a new website for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - aka BIS - this weekend; and as I reported here back in November (sniff!), they're waving farewell to WordPress as their core publishing platform. The new site is built on Sitecore, and is appearing bang on the published schedule. Visually it's really [...] read on »
Tories promise IT skunkworks
If there's one commitment in the Conservatives' Technology Manifesto, billed as 'the most ambitious technology agenda ever proposed by a British political party', which makes my heart leap with joy, it's this: We will also create a small IT development team in government – a 'government skunkworks' – that can develop low cost IT applications [...] read on »
Government beefs up open source policy – a bit
A bit out of the blue, this morning saw a revision of the UK government's open source policy. And whilst it still doesn't quite endorse the notion that open source solutions are fundamentally better solutions, it does ratchet up the expectations. Last year's revision to the 2005 policy statement introduced a subtle - but, I [...] read on »
Wanted: consultation platform, £1m reward
I'm glad my former Microsoft colleague John McGarvey reminded me of Conservative shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's proposal of a £1m prize to develop 'the best new technology platform that helps people come together to solve the problems that matter to them'. That's what happens when you announce things over the Christmas holidays. The plan [...] read on »
Wireframes? Specs? Ha.
I've added a lengthy comment to Stephen Hale's recent blog post about preparations for a much-needed redesign of the FCO's blogs.fco.gov.uk site. Unfortunately, the FCO's platform did horrible things to the formatting, so even if it's only to make it legible, I thought I'd echo one of the more controversial points I made in that [...] read on »
DCSF joins WordPress trend
It's now two years since DCSF published their Children's Plan - I know - and Ed Balls wants to know what impact it has had on you. They've published a progress report, and launched a commentable website... based on, guess what, WordPress. Not the first time they've gone down the open source route: a year [...] read on »
All so familiar in Oslo
If I take one thing home from my trip to Oslo, it's the fact that we're all seeing the same opportunities, and facing the same hurdles. Today's day-long seminar on innovation in and around government kept coming back to freeing up public data - oh, including maps. Sound familiar, anyone? The opening session was Hakon [...] read on »
Did we just win?
We've all learned to be cynical about government announcements - but I'm reading through today's 'Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government' paper, and I can't help smiling. We certainly aren't in a position where the PM can make a policy declaration, and it all falls into place by lunchtime; there are some vicious battles ahead. [...] read on »
Tories publish leaked Govt IT strategy with WordPress
You might have seen coverage in the last few days of the Government's forthcoming ICT strategy - 'New world, new challenges, new opportunities' - which leaked out last week, and is due to be published next week to coincide with the Pre Budget Report. The first I saw of it was at UKAuthority.com, with follow-up [...] read on »
Defence green paper on WordPress
Delighted to note the Ministry of Defence's decision to publish its new green paper in commentable form, using a restyled version of Steph's Commentariat theme for WordPress. The MoD have been doing some excellent, if a little underpublicised, work with blogging tools - Defence News and a blog from Afghanistan, both running on a Typepad [...] read on »