A Right to Data – policy opportunities for UK government
Chatting with Gov 2.0 Radio from London is Chris Yiu from leading UK thinktank Policy Exchange about their newly-released report ‘A Right to Data‘. The report provides an analysis of the current state...
View ArticleOpen Data Cities of the Future
In advance of the Open-Data Cities Conference in Brighton, UK, convenor Greg Hadfield talks about the ways in which all elements of a city – leaders, government, local institutions and businesses as...
View ArticleDoing digital engagement in the public sector
As the use of social and digital tools in the public sector increases, UK digital engagement advisor Steph Gray is helping to answer some of the knotty questions about how to maximise the value of...
View ArticleThe connected citizen in 2012
How ready are citizens to be part of a more connected public space? Where is the UK heading in citizen participation? Ahead of CITIZEN2012 in London, conference organiser Jeffrey Peel – with guest...
View ArticleWhen ROI = Return-On-Influence: Social communication for local government in...
From deploying Yammer for policy and program support, to creative use of YouTube for recruitment, and through to using QR codes to create the world’s first Wikipedia town, the UK’s Monmouthshire County...
View ArticleBringing content to people, not people to websites
Content comes first when it comes to delivering sustainable digital public services at Devon County Council. Carl Haggerty, Digital Communications Manager for the Council shares his insights on the...
View ArticleBeyond the hype: Gov-tech across the Commonwealth of Nations
The 54 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations represents more than 2 billion people across every region of the world and a vast diversity in development and capacity. Professor Tim Unwin, well-known...
View ArticleLaunching the Open Data Institute: bottom-up, middle-out, top-down
Nigel Shadbolt discusses the realities of harnessing the potential of open data for governments, businesses and citizens. With Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Shadbolt is the joint head of the newly...
View ArticleConnecting the communicators with CommsCamp
CommsCamp 2013 brought together practitioners from across UK Government to Birmingham for an unconference about all things communication in the public sector. Ann Kempster from the UK Government...
View ArticleGTEC 2013 and the landscape of GovTech in Canada
Government Technology Exhibition and Conference (GTEC) is widely regarded as Canada’s pre-eminent Gov-Tech Conference. Thom Kearney and Richard Pietro talk to us about their experiences with the 2013...
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