Pro-active social insight
I joined the Civil Service a few months ago and one of the things both my parting and joining managers advised me to do was make the most of a particularly valuable time-limited offer: the fresh perspective. So I took …
Doing the right things first
My first job when I turned up in the DH Digital team was to review how we decide what to do next. I’m working in the strategy team, which means that alongside the work I do on raising capability within …
To Beta and Beyond: what launching our digital passport has taught us
Last year an Annual Skills Survey here in DH concluded that about 20% of our staff considered themselves below ‘basic capability’ at digital stuff (with basic being defined as Level 7 on the Government Digital Strategy’s scale of inclusion). So …
A checklist for discovery – a basic guide of what to include
We (the portfolio management team) have been asked a few times lately about common pitfalls or reasons that digital spend requests might be rejected.
Action! Digital film-making through the lens of the policymaking cycle
One of the actions in the DH Digital strategy commitment to improve the development and impact of its open policymaking is: 'to develop a toolkit to help policymakers identify the most appropriate digital tools and techniques for each stage of …
What does the DH digital strategy mean for policymaking?
The Department of Health’s digital strategy was published in December 2012. The strategy describes how staff will develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to make use of digital techniques to help develop better policy. The strategy commits the department to …