We're really pleased to be supporting this unconference by @connectedbydata.org. If you're working in the public sector and / or think it's important that people have a say on decisions about data, digital and AI - sign up below👇 Thurs 20 March, London. (Nice moves @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social 🕺)

How bad is a bad password? Are you guilty of using 123456 for a password? How dangerous is it really and how fast can these passwords be cracked? Sarah from dxw's GovPress team (our website hosting service), shares what happened when we put them to the test. www.dxw.com/2025/02/how-...

dxw's been working with MoJ for 5 years now, which means we've got some good insight into how the system works. Here's some thoughts from the team about what GDS's blueprint for digital government could look like for services that aim to reduce reoffending and stop people ending up back in prison👇

What does the new blueprint for digital government mean for the services we all use? As part of Digital Leaders' Public Sector AI week @dmits.bsky.social and harrytrimble.bsky.social will share their vision for transparency in public service design Join them on 12 March at 12noon bit.ly/3QgtlWB

We’ve been working with the Ministry of Justice over the last 5 years to deliver digital services that support probation staff in reducing the chance of someone reoffending and ending up back in prison. Kath shares the progress we’ve made so far bit.ly/4gnhH6Q

The State of Digital Government Review: It's the right ideas, again (and again): https://blog.harrym.com/2025/01/29/the-state-of-digital-government/

Another great role. Please get in touch if this might be you and share with your networks 👇

If you are also spending Saturday here at @ukgovcamp.bsky.social we'd love you to come and say hello to the @dxw.com team #ukgc25

On my way to @ukgovcamp.bsky.social. LARGE coffee. #ukgc25

I'll be going along, looking forward to catching up with lots of friends in government and beyond. #ukgc25

As we head towards the New Year, we wanted to share a few highlights and thoughts from 2024. And to say a big thank you to our clients, partners and dxw team for the great things we’ve achieved together. If you’re taking time off over the Christmas period and celebrating, have a great time! 1/6

Great opp for a Service Designer to develop their career doing work that makes a difference with public and third sector clients 👇 Please share!

Survived putting up the tree this weekend with 2 new kittens...

Thanks to everyone who was able to join us last week at #UKCharityCamp . We've had some really positive feedback and lots of great ideas on how we can keep improving 🫶 Following the event @janemaber.bsky.social has shared her blog on the value of being able to experiment www.dxw.com/2024/12/ukch...

Reflections from the Local Government Association Conference 2024. dxw's Molly Gavriel shares her thoughts from inclusion to AI to skills👇 lgiu.org/blog-article... #LGAConf24 #PublicServices #LocalDigital

Lovely to quite literally hear the energy in the room as we put the grid together. #UKCharityCamp

Enjoying the delights of Euston again. But worth it for @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social tomorrow :) #UKCharityCamp

I'll be going along, hope to see some of you there!

Good morning! If you've found my 'UK news and politics' starter pack useful to get you up and running on @bsky.app, please spread the word to new users by giving this a repost. Cheers! go.bsky.app/VNsC9bL

Great post showing how much can be achieved by small empowered teams 👇

It feels like a good time to re-share this post. We've reached a BIG milestone and finally switched off a significant DfE legacy system, well past its sell-by date. Opening up opportunities to explore advanced data analytics capabilities - and the use of AI 👏 bit.ly/3Yo5nwj #LegacyTech #AI

Us lot at @dxw.bsky.social have written down some ideas about the designing a digital centre in gov: 1. Move digital procurement to the centre 2. Nationalise the workforce 3. Break up back-office systems 4. Designing the post-digital public service www.dxw.com/2024/10/4-id...

Marianne's blog post making the point that tackling legacy tech is a lever for transformation. Not just shifting the same issues onto slightly shinier architecture 👇

Pretty exciting to see these 2 together talking about how to actually do this stuff...

The withdrawal of pensioners’ winter fuel allowance— and the 243-question (!) form pensioners now need to complete—highlight why we need to ditch the broken model of “digital transformation” “Forms? Where we’re going, we don’t need forms!”

UKCharityCamp is a free unconference for the UK charity sector. There's more space this year, and still room for more third sector folk who are into digital to learn and share. I'm going to talk about the folk who're helping make it happen. But for now: go grab a ticket. www.ukcharitycamp.com

👋 to @ukcharitycamp.bsky.social who've just made the leap to Bluesky. Give them a follow if you work in and around digital in the third sector and are interested in hooking up with similar folks at UKCharityCamp this November in Brum👇 www.ukcharitycamp.com

Lots to discuss and more food for thought following the big focus on tech at the Labour Party conference 👇

Love this post from Tom. An insightful and pretty inspiring personal reflection on how his approach to leadership has evolved.

Leaving the Lab Party Conference feeling more positive than I expected largely as a result of some good quality Fringe discussions. Encouraged to see digital inclusion firmly back on the agenda too. Heading to Leeds now for the Labour Digital North launch this ev, if anyone's doing the same.

(Grey) morning from New Brighton. In search of coffee.

It's been a while since I've been to Euston. Ugh.

We've been writing quite a bit recently about our work to decommission legacy tech. This from Tim about some of the stuff we've done with DfE is one of the most insightful posts, I think.

Heading up to Liverpool shortly with Dave @dmits.bsky.social. Seeing lots of good folks that we know heading there too. We're expecting serendipitous bumping into most people, but drop one of us a message if you'd like to hook up.

We’re expanding our network of freelance developers. We’re looking for folks with .NET experience atm, but are always getting new projects with new needs. Even if you’re not looking right now, we’d still love to hear from you. Sign up below and please share! airtable.com/appDIojHBNZS...

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hello :)