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Future Gubbins Of Government - NICS ICT Conference 2014
7 October 2014
Change strategy
Mark Foden
Future Gubbins Of Government - NICS ICT Conference 2014
Mark Foden
7 October 2014
Change strategy

Future Gubbins Of Government - NICS ICT Conference 2014

Mark Foden
7 October 2014
Change strategy

On 7 October 2014 I gave the keynote presentation at the Northern Ireland Civil Service ICT Conference. (In Newcastle County Down - hence photo of the mountains of Mourne running down to the sea.) The ideas in it are explained in my recent submission to the Labour Party’s Digital Review - Grow: don't build; and here is a summary of the references in the talk…

  • Gubbins of Government video
  • Tim O’Reilly’s 2010 Government as a platform presentation
  • Tim O’Reilly speaking at GDS in 2013
  • Sir Jeremy Heywood's blog post about Government as a platform
  • David Snowden - Cynefin
  • More Tea Vicar

See also...

  • The critical importance of the idea of government as a platform

Tagged: Digital Transformation, Complexity, Wicked Problems, UK Government IT, Gubbins of Government, GDS, Government 2-0, Conference, Cynefin, Government, Government as a Platform

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