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Development data challenge 2012 London
Part of a series: Development Data Challenges – and thats probably the best message to take away – not one event, not one single opportunity to get things done, but a whole community, lots of...
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Trade data hack in Cape Town – first impressions
The trade data hack grew out of an idea to provide consumers with information on trade-related costs and how trade barriers affect them. There is a lot of data already available, although maybe not...
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Trade data hack in Cape Town – the hack
As the second DFID sponsored trade data hack day (in Nigeria, at CCHub) draws to a close, and the third (in London, in partnership with Rewired State) kicks off, I thought I’d better haul myself up to...
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Trade data hack London
Hot on the heels of my last blog post, I attended the show and tell at the end of the trade data hack event that took place in London this weekend. In partnership with Rewired State, so a couple of...
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DevCom London: how social media can help development
DevCom = Development Communicators: people who work in communications for organisations involved in international development. Last week this network held a workshop, which saw representatives from a...
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Open Up! – anticipation builds
Looking forward to Tuesday this week, when DFID will partner with the Omidyar network and Wired magazine to hold the Open Up! conference in London. As the strapline says, the conference aims to bring...
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Open Up! – belated thoughts, and the reason why (part one)
Later than usual, I’ve revisited the notes I made when I attended the Open Up! conference and captured them in a blog post. The reason I was late pulling my thoughts together and deciphering my notes,...
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Open Up! – belated thoughts (part two)
To continue my notes from the recent Open Up! conference, the next session was led by DFID Secretary of State Justine Greening MP. As an aside, she mentioned she had chosen today to launch her twitter...
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Innovation for lunch
Great to have the opportunity to hear this lunchtime from Chris Vein. He is the new Chief Innovation Officer for Global Information and Communications Technology Development at the World Bank. He leads...
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Govcamp 2013
My fifth govcamp, and a new venue south of the river. This year our hosts were IBM, and despite the grey weather outside, the meeting space was bright and shiny, and filled with about 150 people. The...
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Africa Gathering 2013
The fifth annual get together, and the theme this year was officially ‘Hands-on technology: rise of the makers, the dynamic and the disruptive thinkers in Africa’. For me the two stand out themes were...
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Conference season?
Not an official conference season, it just seems as though a lot of opportunities to get out the office and hear about the bigger picture (several different angles on different big pictures) have come...
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Activate 2013
Transforming the world through digital innovation, technology and openness. How could I resist a conference with this as its strapline? Last in my set of 4 events, this promised to be a busy day, with...
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Digital press office?
At tea camp last week, we re-visited the topic of a digital press office. Stephen Hale has published an excellent overview of the session with his thoughts in a bit more detail, but for those who want...
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First meeting of DFID’s digital advisory panel
Feeling the sense of relief when something you have worked towards for a long time reaches a significant milestone. Tuesday saw the first meeting of DFID’s digital advisory panel. First mentioned as an...
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Buzzfeed – A new kind of media company for the social world
Buzzfeed has generated a lot of interest since it launched quietly in the UK in March 2013. Luke Lewis, UK editor, shared his thoughts on what makes a good story, and how the site works. Almost feel I...
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Data storytelling
Notes from a fascinating workshop hosted at the National Audit Office in April. Nick Halliday opened the workshop by introducing the data analytics framework in NAO. Start with understanding what you...
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Instagram – whats it all about?
I confess I have wondered just what niche Instagram fills in the social media ecosystem, so I was very interested to listen to John TassPa who came to talk to us yesterday. His enthusiasm was...
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The music my notes created
Yesterday I took part in a library crawl – a walk around all of Lambeth’s libraries as they were transformed for the day into Fun Palaces. I wasn’t alone – I walked with the author Stella Duffy, who is...
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National Libraries Day 2016 – completing the set
Extremely busy weekend: looking at all the wonderful and diverse things going on in libraries across the country, gathering examples of where colleagues and members of the Libraries Taskforce are...
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