Reducing food waste is not a waste of time
To mark Stop Food Waste Day Christina Gyles, one of our interaction designers, shares her passion for reducing food waste and her ideas about what more we can all do.
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Coronavirus: living alone and working from home in lockdown
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Emma Cuthbert, Content Designer, Posted on:
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Defra content design, Defra digital
Emma Cuthbert, Defra content designer, shares her experience of having mild coronavirus symptoms and the impact of the outbreak on her usual working from home routine.
DDaT conference: striving for a more sustainable IT future
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Antonia Panayotova, Civil Service fast streamer, Posted on:
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Defra digital, ICT sustainability
Sustainability has long been a priority for the UK. The issue continues to be high on the political agenda.
But how many of us have ever considered how IT equipment is recycled, or how IT services might be delivered in a more sustainable way?
Apprenticeships: not so much ‘You’re fired', more ‘You’re hired’
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Dana Gajewska, Software Developer, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Defra services, Software tools
When people hear the term apprentice some will immediately think of the hit BBC TV reality game show 'The Apprentice’, in which budding entrepreneurs compete for the chance to win a big prize.
The concept of apprenticeships has been around a long time though. And earlier this month Civil Service apprentices up and down the land celebrated National Apprenticeship Week.
Defra digital’s 2019 successes provide a platform for the future
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Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on:
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Defra digital
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.
Flood warning finds its voice
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Ben Smedley, External Digital Services, Incident Management and Resilience, Posted on:
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Defra digital
The Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales are responsible for providing flood warning information to people at risk of flooding in England and Wales. One of the main ways we do this is by sending free automated voice calls. We’ve recently improved this part of the service by switching to Amazon Polly.
First authority in UK to partner with Google Public Alerts
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Frazer Rhodes, Flood Information Service Owner, Environment Agency, Posted on:
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Over the past year the Environment Agency’s Flood Information Service has been working with Google and their Google Public Alerts system, to create an enhanced flood information platform. We can now proudly say that we are the first UK authority to push flood warnings through Google’s online notification platform.
Flood Digital Dragons: Going from the Pitch to Prototype
We had some super pitches to us as ‘Digital Dragons’ in the ‘Pitch to Prototype’ session (at the Flood and Coast 2019 event). So what next?
Starting small with building a design community
Cathy Dutton (Interim Head of Interaction Design) reflects on setting up a User Centred Design Community of Practice (COP) for a small team at Defra’s Warrington digital hub.
Nominated to be a Flood and Coast 2019 ‘Digital Dragon’: there’s an honour
I’m looking forward to being with dragons - no sadly nothing to do with Game of Thrones - but instead, taking part in the Flood and Coast 2019 ‘Digital Dragons' competition. Something of an honour and a privilege I have to say.
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