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  • Bridging the geek/policy wonk divide

    Last week I was at One Team Government, an event to bring together digital teams and policy folk to talk about how to make government more effective. I went to a fascinating session, suggested by @jargonautical, about the digital geek/policy wonk divide. It’s a pattern I’ve often seen, especially in security and assurance work. People…

  • Making the Most of Digital Social Innovation (DSI) at London Tech Week

    Earlier this month I was lucky enough to land a ticket for the ‘Making the Most of Digital Social Innovation’ session being run as part of London Tech Week. Taking place at Nesta, the two panels focused on how organisations are using digital social innovation (DSI) to provide new ways to deliver public services and…

  • Today I learned (or learnt!)…

    Today I learned – TIL We have a Slack channel, which I’m sure most of you have, which is dedicated to sharing cool hints and tips that we have found out during our working day.  This is the TIL channel and it sometimes throws up some pretty useful things as well as some pretty obvious…

  • It’s London Tech Week! Take a look at how we’ve been improving the NHS England site

    This week is London Tech Week in the capital, so we thought we’d bring you some updates on the projects we’ve been working on this year at dxw – first up the improvements and changes we’ve made to the NHS England site. In 2003 when the NHS Commissioning Board became NHS England, they approached us…

  • My first week at dxw

    Without wanting to sound like I’m attending an AA meeting – Hi I’m Jane and this is my first week at dxw as Marketing and Communities Manager 🙂 The last time I was working within the public sector sphere was way back in 1999 for The Home Office’s Communication Directorate, and it’s safe to say…