Why I try to avoid food waste
On Stop Food Waste Day, User Support and Training Manager Dom Burton reflects on why he feels the need for us all to reduce our food waste is so critically important to the future of the planet.
Preservation, compliance, and registration: three keys to managing our precious water resources
In World Water Week Mark Harvett, a digital product manager at the Environment Agency, tells us about the impacts of the driest period in nearly 50 years on our water resources and the role of email alerts in helping abstractors comply with conditions on their abstraction licences.
How we’re doing our bit for World Water Day
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Tim Tamimi and Mark Harvett, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Defra interaction, Open data, Software tools, User research
Today, we celebrate World Water Day with an update on our Water Resources Licensing Service (WRLS) from Product Owner Mark Harvett and Principal Developer Tim Tamimi.
Email alerts – helping water abstractors do their bit for climate change
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Mark Harvett, Posted on:
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Defra content design, Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation, Software tools, User research
As people around the world mobilise for the Global Day of Action for the Climate, the Environment Agency’s Mark Harvett, one of the Product Owners for the Water Resources Licensing Service, explains how a new email alert service will enable abstractors to be more in-step with available water resources.
Fitting my work around my life: why flexible working works so well for digital professionals
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Tim Tamimi, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation, Smarter working, Software tools
To celebrate National Work Life Week, software developer Tim Tamimi explains why he’s such a flexible working enthusiast.
Turning river level data into meaningful content
Defra deals in data. And lots of it. A big part of the department’s job is to collect, process and, through careful service design, convert data into something useful for citizens, businesses and other agencies.
Using an incubation to design an MVP in two days
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Jessica Bonham, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Digital transformation, Smarter working
Agile teams aim to release early and often, starting with a minimum viable product (MVP) and iteratively building on it. But choosing what to put in an MVP is hard. You don’t want to release something that delivers little or …
Key flood data goes open
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Trevor Linford, Flood - Data & Systems Manager, Environment Agency, Posted on:
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Defra digital
April is a busy month in our open data journey, as we make a number of significant flood-related datasets open including: Flood Map for Planning Areas that benefit from flood defences Flood storage areas Flood zones Spatial flood defences (without standardised …
Judging the Geovation Challenge
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Nick Haigh, Lead Analyst, Floods and Water, Posted on:
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Defra digital, Open data
You may know that Defra and Environment Agency have been involved with this year’s Geovation Challenge which the Secretary of State, Liz Truss MP, announced in her speech at the open environment launch. Geovation is all about promoting innovation in …
Flood defences dataset made open data
Flood defences have been in the news this winter. We’re pleased to announce that in response to this we have brought forward our #OpenDefra plans to release a key flood defence dataset as open data from 1 April to today. …
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