People, patience and systems – first thoughts on leaving the civil serice
Be nice. Be grateful. And be intolerant of everything which should not be tolerated.
Relentlessness
Relentlessness is a necessity and a strength in making change happen. A day at Govcamp is a powerful demonstration of relentlessness in action.
In the service of civility
Civil servants have a professional obligation to implement the policies of democratically elected governments, and take professional pride in doing so. But they are allowed – and more than allowed, required – to have a conscience and to exercise it
People, patience and systems – first thoughts on leaving the civil serice
Be nice. Be grateful. And be intolerant of everything which should not be tolerated.
Government blogs and government bloggers
Government digital blogging has sharply decreased, and entire blogs are moribund. That prompts three questions: what’s actually happened, does it matter – and is the data carrying a slightly different message?
Relentlessness
Relentlessness is a necessity and a strength in making change happen. A day at Govcamp is a powerful demonstration of relentlessness in action.
Law, code and systems
Should law which results in the creation of new public administrative systems receive different parliamentary scrutiny from law which doesn’t?
Strategic writing, strategic reading
Things have been a bit quiet round here for a while. The list of posts which have been started continues to lengthen. The list of posts which have been finished and published remains rather stuck.
Postcard from a camping trip
Govcamp is still useless. That’s still its superpower.
In the service of civility
Civil servants have a professional obligation to implement the policies of democratically elected governments, and take professional pride in doing so. But they are allowed – and more than allowed, required – to have a conscience and to exercise it
Customising language
Customers, users or citizens? The debate goes quiet from time to time but never really dies. Words matter. We should make careful choices. But those choices don’t need to be binary. And we don’t need an unambiguous resolution.
Interesting elsewhere – 2 December 2016
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web
Interesting elsewhere – 16 September 2016
Things which caught my eye elsewhere on the web