Since 2023, Defra has been running targeted trials and rollouts of Microsoft Copilot - a personal AI assistant integrated within Microsoft apps. These pilots highlighted the meaningful ways it can benefit colleagues who are neurodivergent and/or have a disability or other access need and, as such, we made full licenses available as a reasonable adjustment. …
Miranda Kavanagh, Executive Director of Evidence at the Environment Agency talks about how we are supporting the Geovation Water Challenge... As a member of the Defra Data Governance Board I'm pleased to confirm that the Environment Agency and Defra will be …
This month we launched a new farming topic page on GOV.UK. It brings together all farming content, hopefully in a way that makes it much easier for people to find what they’re looking for. It also allows government to point farmers to …
Today we have a short post from the retiring Environment Agency Chief Executive Dr Paul Leinster: I am coming to the end of my time as Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, an NDPB within the Department for the Environment …
We use plain English so you can understand anything we publish quickly and easily. Still with me? Thought so. I could’ve said: Simplifying language facilitates the comprehension process of our written guidance. You’d just about get it, but you’d probably …
...our work. We spent some time yesterday looking at how we can engage with users across multiple themes to begin a conversation about what they want from us. Tom Smith,...
Hi, I’m Lisa Allen; I am the lead for the data governance workstream of the #OpenDefra Data Programme. On 25 June the Secretary of State set out her vision for open data to transform food and farming. She gave a …
On Friday (10/07/15) I had the pleasure of attending 'Make it Better With Data: Sheffield' at Sheffield Town Hall hosted by the cities Better With Data Society and Sheffield City Council, with support from Capita and Socrata. The conference was one of the …
Hello - I’m Tom Guilbert and I work in the Data, Mapping, Modelling and Information team at the Environment Agency. I’ve been working over the last few months on updating and improving our bathing water quality open data services …
Today we have a guest post from Savania Chinamaringa, who is a Defra rep at the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group (EADAG)... I have been involved with the EADAG as a Defra rep from its inception. I attend EADAG meetings to listen and learn but …
At Defra, we’ve been redesigning all our guidance on GOV.UK so it better meets user needs. We’re now starting to do ‘usability testing’ to see how people use our new content so we can see where we should make further …
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