Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra

DataMash: thank you!

Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra, 13 June 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation, Earth Observation, Geospatial information, Open data, Software tools

On 24–25 May 2017, Defra and Ordnance Survey ran a two-day un/conference (that's part conference, part unconference) at the Ordnance Survey Headquarters at Southampton. These photos capture a little bit of the magic that happened there...thanks to David Tait, Mattie Yeta

Show your working

Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra, 16 January 2017 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Open data

Reticence to show the thinking behind complex decisions may stem from the risk of challenge, but being open enables a more educated discourse

That's a wrap-up! Reflecting on the DataFunction Unconference

Angharad Stone, The Environment Agency, Beck Strickland, 'Everything Data', the Environment Agency, Elspeth Body, Farah Ahmed, Head of Strategy, Defra Data Transformation Programme, Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra and Sophia Oliver, Head of Data Programme and Data Function, 9 December 2016 - Data Transformation, Defra digital, Open data

The Defra Data Function met in a crisp and frosty Birmingham to discuss the future direction of data in Defra

What an archive: 7 million plant specimens

David Buck, Engagement, OpenDefra, Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra and David Cope, Director of Strategy and External Affairs, Kew Gardens, 9 September 2016 - Defra digital, Defra Science and Innovation, Open data

Imagine losing 7 million plant specimens in a fire. Kew’s plant store (herbarium) faces this risk. The ‘server room' as it’s known, holds 250 years worth of international plant data. To lose generations of passion, love, care and meticulous attention …

Becoming an #OpenCulture

Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra, 8 September 2016 - Defra digital

My organisation is going through change. This really is not unusual as for the majority of my public sector career so far there has been a series of large, individual “change programmes” rolled out and implemented. However the difference with …

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