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Our commitment to better Open Source practices
This was originally posted on Government technology At the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit last week in Paris, the UK government joined a new international collective action that recognises...
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The internet is ‘ok’
Originally posted on Government technology When different parts of the public sector share services and exchange data it’s important that we can rely on the basic security of each other’s technology,...
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Trust and privacy: sharing lessons
This was originally posted on Government Technology Back in November Emma Pearce blogged about using big data following the first in a series of data seminars we’re running. We’ve now held our second...
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Clarifying our Cloud First commitment
This was my final post on the Government technology blog The government technology landscape has shifted significantly since we made our commitment to Cloud First nearly 4 years ago. Departments have...
View ArticleCloud-native organisations
I spoke recently at the OpenGov Leadership Forum in Manila and at Cloud Expo Europe. At both I started to explore a theme from my final GDS blog post: cloud-native organisations....
View ArticleEnterprise-ready SaaS Features
In my last post on Cloud-native organisations I said: “we should be clear about the principles that apply and help our people understand what we need to watch out for when choosing technology.” As the...
View ArticleWhat’s next?
It’s been nearly two months since I left GDS. It’s high time I talked a bit more about what’s next for me. I was really pleased with everything we got done in my last few weeks at GDS. Alongside the...
View ArticleTransition beyond GDPR compliance
360 days from now the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. Anyone handling personal data from an EU citizen or subject (and the Information Commissioner has been clear we should...
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A few thoughts from ITEM
A couple of weeks back I made my first visit to Ukraine, to keynote the (outdoor!) ITEM conference in Dnipro. It was one of those trips where you don’t really feel like you see the place. Due to flight...
View ArticleGetting past off-shoring
One of the factors many organisations (including governments) agonise over when deciding whether to use public cloud services is whether or not services and data can be stored “off shore”. It’s not a...
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