When I first met Matthew Partovi I think there was a mutual troublemaker recognition admiration thing going on. The kind where you identify a mischief maker and recognise that the motivation behind the mischief is to push the boundaries of what currently exists so we can get to where we need to go. Matthew was […]
As a budget manager, you have a pile of cash to spend within 12 months. The end of the year is approaching and in the back of your mind you know that the £20,000 still sloshing around from underspend will be worth £20,000 on 31 March, yet when you wake up on 1 April, […]
Traditionally funding works whereby an organisation, often a Council or other government body, puts together a bid to a funding body. The funding body will look at the sketch of a plan to decide whether it will fund further research into the initial idea, often called phase 1 or stage 1 funding. From this, the […]
Here is a taster of what Ben at Delib has to say about 1/3 of The Satori Lab For the latest in our ‘Digital Heroes’ series, a quick chat with people doing interesting digital work in and around government, I thought it was about time to introduce you to a man who you’re probably already aware of, […]
My husband’s Gran turned 100 last week. Two decades’ working at the local hospital didn’t do her much good last year when she ended up to-ing and fro-ing between home and hospital over a fraught three and a half week period before eventually being put into residential care by private arrangement. Social Services ignored repeated […]