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Milton Keynes marathon 2025  May 3, 2025 Administrative Fairness Lab Conference 2025  April 30, 2025  April 17, 2025 Public sector design — time for a reset  July 9, 2024 Digital talent and precariousness in government  March 28, 2024 Marathon  January 28, 2024 Speaker notes: administrative fairness in practice  November 14, 2023 Government service design: outcomes and ‘fairness’?  October 19, 2022 A measure of value for digital public service delivery  March 16, 2022 Dyslexia  October 19, 2021 The limits of simple  September 16, 2021 Subsidising R&D for a handful of trillion-dollar tech giants  August 26, 2021 Composite services are here  August 26, 2021 Service marginalia  August 25, 2021 How this thing works  August 24, 2021 15 questions for the future of digital practice in government  May 24, 2021 Useless data  November 12, 2020 How many project management paradigms do you have in your organisation?  August 19, 2020 Public interest technology and covid data - whose job is it?  August 6, 2020 Some unconnected thoughts on contract tracing and COVID Secure venues  July 29, 2020 Rishi Sunak's 'Plan for Jobs' speech - some digital gaps  July 8, 2020 The UK’s digital strategy should be the wholesale elimination of administrative burden  June 25, 2020 If government is mostly service design, is most government service design databases and rights?  June 22, 2020 Who governs? Platform privilege, contact tracing and APIs.  April 29, 2020 Getting people back into work: ethics, efficacy and trust  April 29, 2020 The boring side of tech, transparency and contact tracing  April 28, 2020 The UK government should negotiate free access to Faster Payments to speed up COVID-19 payments  April 15, 2020 Digital public services: cross-civil society collaboration during the COVID19 crisis  April 8, 2020 A model planning condition for digital infrastructure  January 30, 2018 InLinkUK - targeted advertising, planning permission and public space  November 11, 2017 Bye2k - government IT and Brexit  July 11, 2017 GDS Retrospective #5: things that have changed  July 2, 2017 GDS Retrospective #4: transformation and mental health  July 1, 2017 GDS Retrospective #3: professions and design  July 1, 2017 Google Jobs will break 90 years of welfare policy - here's what the policy response should be  May 21, 2017 GDS Retrospective #2: tools for making & communities  April 16, 2017 GDS Retrospective #1: knowing when to run  April 16, 2017 Beckton - a tool to build groups of paying members  March 5, 2017 Activity based permissions  March 1, 2017 Is the internet the problem?  February 16, 2017 Retrospective  December 13, 2016 Designing digital services that are accountable, understood, and trusted (OSCON 2016 talk)  November 23, 2016 Facebook and Twitter as public service networks (it's not just about the algorithm)  November 11, 2016 Brexit, open data and dangerous products  October 24, 2016 Dear England  June 26, 2016 EU  June 19, 2016 Policy options for getting wider adoption of the jobPosting standard  May 22, 2016 2 local government platforms someone should just build  April 28, 2016 Gherkin - a universal language for accountable bots?  April 14, 2016 It’s not about the technology! (Apart from when it is).  April 12, 2016 7 project ideas  April 6, 2016 Fosdem 2016 links and notes  March 2, 2016 UK Digital Strategy submissions - data sharing / labour market data  January 17, 2016 Trust through doing: 3 links  January 10, 2016 Why technologists should join Which? (or what I learned failing to stand for election)  December 8, 2015 10 rules for distributed / networked / platformed government  November 12, 2015 Changing changes of circumstance: 7 alternative design patterns  November 9, 2015 This Place Is Ours: check-in to add this pub to the Assets of Community Value Register  October 13, 2015 Empathy, augmented - public services as digital assistants  September 30, 2015 Product Land (Part 3)  September 14, 2015 Open standards for job vacancies  July 2, 2015 Brand archaeology  April 19, 2015 Telegraph laws  March 14, 2015 Mobile first design & dev (for £2.75)  March 3, 2015 Permissions. Understood.  February 27, 2015 Product Land (Part 2)  February 15, 2015 Habitat - Fosdem 2015 talk  February 11, 2015 Fosdem 2015 - interesting links  February 9, 2015 Signing in & composite services  February 6, 2015 Democracy at the point of use?  January 23, 2015 The challenge for web designers in 2015 (or how to cheat at the future)  January 17, 2015 Abundantly useful  January 14, 2015 Time to start designing and demoing mobile first?  December 24, 2014 co-op v2?  December 1, 2014 Product Land (Part 1)  November 10, 2014 Music notes: September  October 5, 2014 OpenStreetMap as infrastructure - a localgov map?  October 4, 2014 Info-buildings  September 25, 2014 Music notes: August 2014  August 25, 2014 MOO.COM UX rules - circa 2008  August 2, 2014 A recipe for starting & prototyping new projects  July 27, 2014 Notes - elements and self hosting  July 24, 2014 Where are the dedicated writing devices?  July 21, 2014 Cards  July 17, 2014 Cucumber tests for regulatory data?  July 16, 2014 Notes: 2034, OSM mapping, triangulation  July 6, 2014 Local government  July 6, 2014 Timeless  June 22, 2014 Anatomy of a project space  June 22, 2014 Notes: manuals, homomorphic encryption, lazy database  June 8, 2014 Input  June 1, 2014 Moving from Gmail  May 27, 2014 Notes: Capital Ring, habitat  May 21, 2014 Notes: 5 - 9th May 2014  May 20, 2014