Digital champions, skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTQl_GMcpy8&feature=youtu.be In November 2014, the digital team held its first ever Digital Show & Tell for our colleagues in the Department.
During 2014, we’ve been pushing the digital capability message pretty hard. (Summary: don’t be scared, it’s the same internet you have at home, now go do clever stuff.) So it’s nice to have a number to put on the progress we’ve made.
As an agile digital team, running an agile intranet project, I always wanted our testing model to reflect the principles of agile.
I’m used to having to explain my job title to people.
As a team we like to eat our own dog food, so after we launched the new Intranet last month we wanted to check how well it meets the 26 points in the Digital by Default Service Standards.
One month ago we launched the Department's new intranet, including our new PolicyKit, in a fanfare of public sector savings, staff satisfaction, and another big win for small UK digital businesses.
As part of our capability work in the Department, we are experimenting with using digital tools to deliver learning and development. We are just about to start a Yammer based course on blogging.
Bob Gann, Programme Director for Widening Digital Participation at NHS England, talks about an ambitious digital skills initiative to help people get online for health.
We're planning a teaching session on digital for Will Cavendish our new DG for innovation, growth and technology.
Last week, as part of the new Department of Health intranet, we launched the PolicyKit.