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A vision for Digital Services 3: building on the lessons of G-Cloud and abandoning some of our old assumptions.

..and I’m the newest developer working for dxw. I love the idea of helping to improve public services. After doing a masters degree in contemporary history and political science I worked for NGOs in Switzerland and abroad. These experiences made me realise how important a careful balance between public and private sector is. In the…

I’ve always struggled to get to grips with the way dxw should best organise and manage its sales. Of course, the sales function is vital for any company to successfully win business. But I’m very conscious of the fact that the sales approaches pursued by many companies do not necessarily lead to good outcomes or…

Since the Digital Services 2 procurement process began, I’ve been trying to get some idea of the way a new Digital Services framework should work. Throughout the debate about DS2, one of the recurring themes for me has been that the framework, as designed, doesn’t follow the principles that GDS had laid out for effective governance. At…

Due to a critical security vulnerability announced on Sunday evening, we have disabled commenting on all dxw-hosted sites. At 2100 on Sunday 26th April, a flaw in the way WordPress handles comments was published. This flaw could allow an attacker to inject HTML and Javascript into the pages of your website. In so doing, they…

It’s been a fun, exciting and eye-opening twelve months since I joined dxw. So as I approach my first anniversary of working here I thought now would be a good time to reflect on what I’ve learnt over the last twelve months. Working in a small team is awesome Before joining dxw I had mostly…