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A new discovery for tracking waste

Posted by: Alistair Paul, Waste Regulation and Crime, Posted on: 15 January 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Waste tracking discovery team at work

A cross-government collaborative team recently started a discovery looking at how waste movements are tracked across the UK. The team is keen to hear from regulators and businesses, to find out more about their needs. In this post I’ll explain …

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Change is hard, but better than not changing at all

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 12 January 2018 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Custom software created using Kirona

...who have had to make considerable changes to the way they work. We’re grateful to them for their patience while we move from old to new. But the important thing...

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Platforms can be products too

Posted by: Colin Banno-Thorton, Posted on: 15 December 2017 - Categories: Defra digital

Like many other government organisations, we have embraced the Service Manual, and we’re increasingly putting service design thinking and agile working methods at the heart of our approach to delivery. It’s change, and change for the better.

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Rethinking how people send us data

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 1 December 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Screenshot of the report landfill data service

...it. At the same time, there has been no standard way to check data against the limits set in the permit. Assessing that data is a relatively slow manual process....

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About our guide to discovery

Posted by: Tracy Green, Posted on: 30 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital
Screenshot of the guide to discovery

We've just published A guide to discovery (in alpha). We'd like you to tell us what you think of it.

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Taking action on age diversity in Defra

Posted by: Betsy Bassis, Posted on: 24 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital
Carol Deakins

...a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. As we look ahead to the coming year, I’m particularly interested in exploring the intersectionality between age and other aspects diversity....

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Putting the Service Toolkit to work

Posted by: Harriet Green, Joint Chief Digital Officer and Myra Hunt, Joint Chief Digital Officer, Posted on: 22 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Waste export controls tool alpha

...it's very hard to update the database behind the scenes, so when new waste controls are created for new waste products, or to reflect changing policies in foreign countries, the...

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Partnership in Practice

Posted by: Ad West, Posted on: 20 November 2017 - Categories: Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra Science and Innovation, Defra services, Digital transformation
approaching service design using a range of prototyping tools, including miniature farm models

Read a blog post about the Defra Livestock Information Programme - which is working with industry to transform how we track future livestock movements in the UK.

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Transformation: it’s been the new ‘normal’ for decades

Posted by: John Seglias, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Posted on: 17 November 2017 - Categories: Data Transformation, Defra digital, Digital transformation
John Seglias, Defra group Chief Digital and Information Officer

A post from John Seglias (Defra group Chief Digital and Information Officer) sharing some thoughts on transformation.

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Introducing the Digital Working team

Posted by: Tracy Green, Posted on: 17 November 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Digital transformation
Digital Working team at work

Back in April, my colleague Colin Banno-Thornton wrote about the birth of the Enabling Digital Transformation team in Defra. Since then quite a lot has changed (not least the name of the team - I'll come back to that later), …

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