Civil servant at @gdsteam, helping the UK government embrace secure design for humans. Flutist. He/they.
London, UK
Joined September 2008
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Rough notes of things that we know we ought to be doing as directors of digital stuff in the public sector but often forget or scrimp on rossferg.medium.com/notes-on…
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One of my favourite quotes -> "Resilience is sustained adaptive capacity, or continuous adaptability to unforeseen situations" by @allspaw
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You can now access most NHS services from your mobile, with no data charges.
In awe of the team who pulled this together very quickly.
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My team's new blog clarifying what we are doing with the government's Cloud First Policy is out. #cloudfirst technology.blog.gov.uk/2019/…
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If it’s not your world, it is hard to explain just how much work was involved in updating this mighty Act, now up to date, with over 200 point in time versions all on legislation.gov.uk. Make no mistake, this is also a powerful statement by @UkNatArchives about the service.
The Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 is now up to date on legislation.gov.uk/. This is the most heavily amended Act, with over 13,000 changes over 30 years and a huge achievement by our editorial team. You can view the Act here: socsi.in/k1Mld
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Awesome stuff @yahoo_pete. Proper @markwfoden-esque Gubbins of Government.
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An excellent piece on the common problems with roadmaps and how to overcome them, by @kylelarryevans
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The Open Standards board now recommends that government organisations use OpenAPI version 3 to describe RESTful APIs gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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X : Why so rude about the market?
Me : I'm not, it's a tool, nothing more.
X : Market muppets?
Me : Unchecked, the market would bring back (actually extend, it never went away) slavery. The market is the mindless bully in the playground. Gov is the kid you hope has a conscience.
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Enjoying the interactive workshop facilitated by our #GovTechCatalyst team and @CivTechScotland. Good example of collaboration in action and learning by doing. #SprintEdinburgh
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It's easy to miss, but this tweet is basically announcing one of the biggest changes to patient experience in the UK in years. When you properly apply systems thinking or mapping to digital transformation, putting in spend controls is one of the most powerful things you can do.
When starting a new digital project, NHS suppliers & commissioning orgs will have to show @NHSX that they meet these standards to get their funds.
NHSX will make sure that companies selling into the NHS will only have to show this once—not repeatedly for different NHS orgs.
4/6
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#TICTeC this year has more female speakers then male (39/37) I literally don't think I've EVER been at a conference where that's been the case. Huge props to @mysociety! – at Paris, France
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"If #tech was the answer, what was the question again?" @markcridge from @mySociety on moving beyond civic tech hackathons #TICTeC
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A lot of programmers make the mistake of thinking the way you make code flexible is by predicting as many future uses as possible, but this paradoxically leads to *less* flexible code.
The only way to achieve flexibility is to make things as simple and easy to change as you can.
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We're hiring! hubs.ly/H0g2C140
* Snr Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Researcher (7 Jan)
* Project Mgr (8 Jan)
* Delivery Mgr (13 Jan)
* Learning & Dev Specialist (13 Jan)
* Startup Community Mgr (14 Jan)
* Senior Consultant (14 Jan)
* Data Standards & Tech Lead (15 Jan)
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Difference between machine learning and AI:
If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning
If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI
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We're looking for a contract developer to help us build a capture the flag challenge for @dxwcyber. We'll be using it to test candidates for pentesting roles, so it's a really important project for us. Grateful for RTs :)
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Public sector teams - if you need funding to work with tech innovators to solve complex problems, apply to the #GovTechCatalyst. Deadline for applications is 12 November. Find out about how to apply: gov.uk/guidance/the-govtech-…
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I’ve worked with lots of agile #teams, and some of the symptoms of a well functioning high-perfoming teams that I see are:
👇 – at Islington, London
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This is really considered, constructive stuff from @harrym of @dxw - and based on years of conscientious work from a small supplier that genuinely seeks to be a valuable delivery partner to government. V helpful read. dxw.com/2018/09/digital-proc… dxw.com/2018/09/digital-proc…