UKTI / LinkedIn success story. Kevin Partridge discussed how UKTI has built up its LinkedIn group with over 9000 members to promote their services and directly engage with businesses.
Chris Chant, Programme Director for the Government’s G-cloud initiative gave his ‘Unacceptable’ speech about how the new G-Cloud is a sign of public sector IT becoming more flexible, modern and better value and offering the ‘first pay as you go’ approach to IT.
Steve Fosten, Senior Safer Neighbourhoods Officer from North Lincolnshire Council talked about how Cloud had allowed all the emergency services to be linked up for the very first time.
Future dates for your diaries:
- Feb 16th: 2nd Tea Cloud camp – NAO Offices, Central London from 4-6 pm – Registration Reg’d
- Mar 15th: 4th Agile Tea Camp – Cafe Zest, Victoria Street from 4-6pm
- Apr 19th: 3rd Tea Cloud camp – Microsoft Offices, Cardinal Place, Victoria from 4-6pm – Registration req’d
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Hadley Beeman and Glyn Wintle will update us on LinkedGov.org
@hadleybeemanSteve Wilkes Home Office will talk about the accessing social media strand of the government ICT strategy. (Information Communication Technology).The Home Office leads on this strand across government and Steve would like to outline current thinking and get your views.
@StevenRWilkes
@hadleybeemanSteve Wilkes Home Office will talk about the accessing social media strand of the government ICT strategy. (Information Communication Technology).The Home Office leads on this strand across government and Steve would like to outline current thinking and get your views.
@StevenRWilkes
Richard Pawson from Naked Objects talked about his experience working with the Department of Social Protection in Ireland on delivering a benefits administration system. Richard put into context how complicated child payments could be, and explained that this was one of 40 agile projects delivered for DSP.
Mark Foden from Foden Grealy took to the floor, quite literally, when he designed an agile model on the floor with sticky tape and paper, and nimbly leapt from box to box to show how agile can work in practice.
Sep 012011
Nicola Hughes from ScraperWiki.com talked about getting information from data and social media; using it to inform the public and the government with ways of looking at spending and tweeting.
@DataMinerUK http://scraperwiki.com/profiles/NicolaHughes/
@DataMinerUK http://scraperwiki.com/profiles/NicolaHughes/
Dr Rufus Pollock, Director and Co-Founder of The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) talked about OKF and its work. The OKF is a not-for-project founded in 2004 that builds tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge – content and data that everyone can use, share and build on. Its work includes projects like http://ckan.org/ (which powers data.gov.uk), http://openspending.org/ and http://openshakespeare.org/, events like OKCON http://okcon.org/ and the Open Government Data Camp http://ogdcamp.org/ and a wide set of community activities such its working groups http://okfn.org/wg/.
http://okfn.org/about/ @rufuspollock http://rufuspollock.org/
Mark O’Neill @marxculture told us about the Skunkworks e-petitions project
Nick Keane from National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) spoke about the Police and social media.
Mark Smitham from Home Office will told us about government’s fast track graduate programme for technology, Technology in Business (TiB). The people who, like teacampers, want to innovate and shape the way government does business by using technology. Have you considered TiB in your organisation?
Sharon O’Dea from Parliament.uk will talk about an international perspective on social media / digital communications gathered from her experiences in South America and the Middle East.
Tom Loosemore will talk about ‘Alphagov’, the alpha version of a single domain for government as outlined in the Martha Lane Fox review of government digital services.
Apr 072011
Mark O’Neill @marxculture told us about Skunkworks
Steve Dale spoke about the pending Beta release of the Knowledge Hub www.local.gov.uk/knowledgehub #khub http://steve-dale.net/
The Knowledge Hub will become the definitive online environment for public sector organisations to produce, capture and share knowledge. It will integrate and aggregate data and conversations and highlight key topics and trends. Users can upload their own datasets and create free or licensed value-added applications for improving public services.
The Knowledge Hub will become the definitive online environment for public sector organisations to produce, capture and share knowledge. It will integrate and aggregate data and conversations and highlight key topics and trends. Users can upload their own datasets and create free or licensed value-added applications for improving public services.
