Archive for 'dius'
DIUS corporate site: almost £1m for 2 years
The Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (2007-2009) did some great things on the web - and not just from Steph Gray's social media desk. They were exceptionally quick to get a corporate website up and running: nothing particularly clever, but it was there on the day the department came into being [citation needed]. And [...] read on »
Innovative & skilful: it's The Business
On reflection, if you're going to put two of the most forward-thinking people in e-government into the same department, great things are probably to be expected. BERR (as was)'s Neil and DIUS (as was)'s Steph put their heads together on Monday afternoon, and on Wednesday, they launched a new corporate website for the newly-created Department [...] read on »
New Whitehall innovation hub
There's nothing explicitly technological in the announcement today by the National School of Government that 'the Sunningdale Institute has established an Innovation Hub to develop know-how on stimulating and supporting innovation in government and the public services' - as announced in the DIUS Innovation Nation white paper. (See Steph's interactive version.) But since the Hub's [...] read on »
DIUS living up to its name
I'm genuinely delighted to see the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills allowing itself some room to innovate. As DIUS social media manager Steph Gray explains, they've just published an interactive version of their white paper on innovation (published a few months back), using - wahey! - WordPress. Or more specifically, CommentPress: the theme which [...] read on »