by Jeffrey Peel | Nov 4, 2015 | Citizen Engagement, United Kingdom, United States
Tweet Two interesting stories have been doing the rounds on either side of the Atlantic over the last few days. Both relate to tax. Both relate to the policies adopted by the tax collection authorities. The UK story is that HMRC (the UK’s revenue and customs...
by Jeffrey Peel | Aug 5, 2015 | Digital Government, Digital Policy, United Kingdom
Tweet The Head of the Government Digital Service, Mike Bracken, has announced he is leaving the civil service. We asked Emer Coleman, former Deputy Director for Digital Engagement at GDS, to give her personal reaction to his departure. — Over the past two years...
by Jeffrey Peel | Jul 7, 2015 | Smart Cities, United Kingdom, United States
Tweet Smart cities. Innovative cities. Cities fit for the future. There’s a lot of discussion, these days, about cities and how they need to evolve in order to be able to accommodate demand. But not all cities are growing. Not all cities are successful. Consider...
by Jeffrey Peel | Jul 6, 2015 | Digital Government, Digital Policy, United Kingdom, United States
Tweet We have done our fair share of speculating, on this site, about the similarities between 18F, GDS and USDS. But where do the similarities start and end? What is 18F and how is its role evolving now that its honeymoon period is over and it’s now into its...
by Jeffrey Peel | Jun 18, 2015 | Citizen Engagement, Digital Government, Government and Cloud, United Kingdom
Tweet EnterConf opened today in Belfast, Northern Ireland in a former Harland & Wolff warehouse building (now home to a skateboarding park). The venue is grungy but the presentations – from the great and the good in enterprise software – help paint a...
by Jeffrey Peel | Jun 12, 2015 | Digital Government, Events, United Kingdom
Tweet One of the most successful aspects of the Web Summit in Dublin – which has been described as “the best tech conference in the world”, “Glastonbury for geeks” and “Davos for nerds” – was the Enterprise Summit. At Web Summit in 2014 more than 5,000...
