Smarter working means making Defra a better place to work
Read a blog post from Betsy Bassis, Defra Chief Operating Officer, explaining what it means to work smarter and why it's important
Digital transformation
How communities make a difference
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Emily Webber, Communities of Practice Lead, Digital Transformation, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation
A blog post about the benefits of building communities of practice and how they are making a real difference to the way Defra works.
Transforming Together
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John Seglias, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation, Open data
Some impressions from John Seglias, Defra Group Chief Technology Officer, about last week's Transforming Together event - which was hosted by Defra group
Changing culture from the bottom up
A blog by Dan Beasley - a Digital Delivery Manager - about how Defra is changing its culture from the bottom up and some of the ways of working we are using to do that
DataMash: thank you!
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Mike Rose, Head of Engagement, OpenDefra, Posted on:
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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
A pause on activities
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Defra Communications, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra content design, Defra digital, Defra Science and Innovation, Defra services, Digital transformation, Earth Observation, INSPIRE, Maker community, Open data, Software tools, UnITy
We officially enter a pre-election period as of midnight tonight, so there will be no new blog posts until after the election.
Sprintnotes E02: The new normal
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Bella Jones, Communications & Engagement Manager, Capgemini and Farah Ahmed, Head of Strategy, Defra Data Transformation Programme, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools
We’ve just wrapped on Day 2 of our two-week sprint over at Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange.
Sprintnotes E01: Post-it People
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Farah Ahmed, Head of Strategy, Defra Data Transformation Programme and Mark Todd, Flood Risk Manager, Environment Agency, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools
This is the first of a series of blogposts – ‘sprintnotes’ – covering a two week sprint aiming to make better use of flood data.
Guerrilla statistics
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David Lee, Posted on:
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Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation, Open data, Software tools
Last year I was lucky enough to get on to the GDS Data Science Accelerator. On this scheme participants offer their enthusiasm to learn data science and their time to work on a project of potential value to their departments. …
Inductions for teams, not just organisations
A blog from James Cattell about being inducted to the Defra Digital team and his thoughts on comparing this to a traditional organisation induction.
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