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  • International Women’s Day #BeBoldForChange

    International Women’s Day #BeBoldForChange Here at dxw we celebrate equality and diversity and believe that gender should not have an influence on how you are treated. It doesn’t matter if you’re binary, non-binary or anyone in between. We recognise is that there is still gender inequality in the world we live in and we want…

  • Me voy

    Sadly, this will be my last day at dxw. I’m off to a new country with no real plan other than to try to live a new life. Actually that’s not quite true because I have always had this idea in the back of my mind to try and live out the “good life”, the…

  • How we do agile research analysis

    Agile analysis shapes our research Conducting research for agile projects means that we need to work fast, include the whole team and provide clients with opportunities to get involved. We embed research in all our work and remain flexible in our approach. This means sometimes we’re working on a full on eight-week discovery phase and…

  • Keep going!

    Vanessa and I went to a Women in Digital event hosted by the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS). PDS invited us as we built and host their blog, which is actually one of the tools PDS is using to encourage diversity and hire more women and people from minority groups. Along with government departments, suppliers and charities,…

  • UKGovcampX

    Last month was UKGovcampX, an event close to dxw’s heart. I’ve been a regular attendee and sometime campmaker since 2013, but this was my first one since leaving the Civil Service so I was looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends. This isn’t a comprehensive account of the day – just some thoughts. I took…

  • How we have protected GovPress sites from the WordPress REST API vulnerability

    A large number of WordPress sites will have been defaced as a result of a recently disclosed vulnerability in the REST API. Fortunately this did not affect sites hosted with dxw as proactive steps had already been taken to secure client sites. Two weeks ago, the WordPress security team told us and a number of…