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The Directgov|innovate blog is a place we can share thoughts and ideas and hold collaborative discussions with the developer community.
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Posted Tue, 25/08/2009 - 11:26 by Brian Hoadley
On Sunday I attended presentations for the 2 day long Young Rewired State event held at Google offices in Victoria. Unlike the spring event held at the Guardian, this event happened over 2 days and was aimed at 15-18 year olds. It represented the realm of the possible and the teenage developers displayed clever thinking and adept skills at delivering useful products.
Posted Wed, 12/08/2009 - 11:08 by Brian Hoadley
We’re looking for someone for a 6 month contract as Head of Innovation, reporting to the Director of Strategy and Proposition. This person will work alongside the current Head of Innovation for a short time to come up to speed on Directgov | innovate and will help take the initiative to the next level.
If you are looking for a challenge and feel that you have what it takes to be an innovator at Directgov, then take the next step and apply through one of the agencies listed below.
To apply, please contact one of the following agencies:
Posted Mon, 06/07/2009 - 15:02 by Brian Hoadley
Not everyone in the community is a developer. Some people have the ideas but not the programming skills to develop them.
Our new ideas tool allows you to submit ideas for tools that show innovative use of government data, cloud or crowdsourcing in applications, widgets or mashups.
You will not only be able to submit ideas, but can also comment on other people's ideas, and collaborate through that discussion to create even better ideas.
We look forward to everyone's participation and seeing what new ideas develop.
Posted Thu, 02/07/2009 - 11:23 by Brian Hoadley
Over the months since launching the Directgov | innovate beta we've listened and learned. Because the site was always intended to be more than a blog we've stepped back and reviewed the underlying technology, and after a bit of work (and months of listening to our users), have redeveloped the new Directgov | innovate space using open source technologies.
We welcome comments from everyone on the new site, and as always, consider it to be an ongoing, iterative experiment in innovation and collaboration in the government space.
Posted Tue, 28/04/2009 - 13:10 by Brian Hoadley
Directgov has just launched a new application called Moneyspeak, which can be shared via social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. It’s downloadable, embeddable and shareable.
The Moneyspeak application has been developed under the theme of Real Help and is designed to make sense of the often confusing and alarming economic terms everyone is hearing at the moment.
Posted Mon, 09/03/2009 - 17:00 by Brian Hoadley
On Saturday evening, I trekked over to “Rewired State: National Hack the Government Day” held at the Guardian’s trendy new offices in Kings Cross. The event, conceived and organised by James Darling, Richard Pope and Emma Mulqueeny, sought to demonstrate how government could make better use of open source and non-personal data to better serve the digital needs of its citizens.
Posted Wed, 11/02/2009 - 10:55 by Brian Hoadley
Thanks for your excellent comments and constructive feedback to the first - as it turned out, alpha - releases of the schoolclosures prototype. Roughly speaking they fell into three categories:
Posted Thu, 05/02/2009 - 11:37 by Brian Hoadley
Update: 5 February 2009
The alpha prototype is offline at the moment for maintenance.
Posted Tue, 03/02/2009 - 13:03 by Brian Hoadley
The adverse weather has shown us that sudden events need rapid and effective responses. Particularly when people need information from many places, very quickly. Sometimes information from people out there on the ground can get round this in a very simple way, but it can also have risks. One thing we know is that people want easily accessible, reliable information on which schools are closed because of snow.
Posted Mon, 02/02/2009 - 15:27 by Brian Hoadley
On Saturday we attended BarCampUKGovWeb09 held at the Ministry of Justice in London. It was an exceedingly well organised event, and we can report back that a great time was had by all. Kudos to the organisers!
