Joint Chief Digital Officer for the Defra group
Defra Chief Digital Officers Myra Hunt and Harriet Green reflect on a year like no other for Defra Digital, as Covid-19 shaped the work we did, where we did it and how we worked with each other.
It's 5 years, almost to the day, since the Defra digital blog was launched. So it’s a good time to look back at our achievements – and look forward to our future plans.
To mark International Women's Day 2019, Harriet Green and Myra Hunt, talk about their experience of job sharing the Chief Digital Officer role at Defra.
Let's talk about legacy software. Every large organisation has some. We have plenty. When we say 'legacy', we usually mean software and systems that are old. But old software isn’t necessarily bad software.
More than a year ago, our predecessor Sally Meecham wrote about Defra’s digital principles, saying how they acted as a useful way of setting out our approach to simplifying services and cutting out complexity. A lot’s happened since then. In …
...that the process of applying for and issuing those water abstraction licences is almost entirely paper-based at the moment. (There are some digitised forms that exist as PDF files, but...
...worked only with the farmers and commercial premises within that patch. Data was gathered on paper, sometimes using handwritten carbon-copies. When they’d finished, the inspectors had to manually input the...
...number of landfill sites have been taking part in a trial that made use of a database called EMMA (Emissions Monitoring Management and Assessment). More recently, a team based in...
...a business working in the waste export trade, you need to know which rules apply to which shipments of waste. The rules are sorted into 4 "waste controls". At the...
We took over as Defra’s joint Chief Digital Officers back in July. Since then, we've spent a lot of time meeting a lot of different people at all levels around the organisation, asking questions and listening.
