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Bro came & terrorised the peak Australian team, and never played again...!!! Jones...Simon Jones!!!!
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My father-in-law is a webmaster. We were browsing McMaster and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it”
how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?
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I am recruiting for 2 senior roles for City St George's ... a General Counsel and a Chief People Officer - doing big and innovative stuff in higher education city.ac.uk/about/jobs/apply/… and city.ac.uk/about/jobs/apply/… see @PerrettLaver
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Sam Altman on the (philosophical, existential) future of AI: ia.samaltman.com/
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Wall Street has NO IDEA what’s coming. Zuck explains the bull case for $NVDA in 2 minutes better than any analyst:
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Amazon’s AI bot is immediately amusing. Randomly started telling me about vacuum cleaners then denied it 😂
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A beautiful day to #vote. Please do go vote - no matter who you support 🙏🏻
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Congratulations to the 4 finalists from GDS in tonight’s #WomenInTechExcellence awards! 🤞🎉 🌟Jessamyn Rossington - Digital Leader of the Year 🌟Nila Patel - Team Leader of the Year 🌟Natalie Jones - Outstanding Transformation of the Year 🌟Amina Omar - Rising Star of the Year
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A typically fascinating blogpost by @sboots on why change is so difficult in federal governments, even with the right leadership in place
New blog post! 🏛 “Coasian hecks, or, when the people in charge can’t change things either” sboots.ca/2023/09/26/coasian… #GCdigital
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Love this!
Standing ovation to the OECD for convening the International Sludge Academy, designed to reduce sludge all over the world. (Note: "6 teams from 14 countries are actively conducting sludge audits"!) oecd-opsi.org/blog/behaviour…
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A day five years in the making as the first veterans ID cards land in the hands of veterans.. now to ramp up 🫡
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Really insightful opening panel at #BTSS2023 on how to catalyse a culture of innovation across the public sector with @kpmguk’s Laura Webb, Richard Corbridge, CDIO at @DWPgovuk, @jamesfreed5 & @danbrember
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There were many highlights from last week’s @GDSTeam all-staff get together, but this might be my favourite. Investing in existing digital products is never as easy to sell as new initiatives, but so so important
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Here’s to the next chapter
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Heute haben sich Christine Serrette und @thommeread, CEO @GDSTeam vom @CabinetOffice der britischen Regierung, über die #Digitalisierung der Verwaltung ausgetauscht. 👉 Unser Ziel: Erfolgreiche Ansätze in Europa kennenlernen und unsere eigenen Erfahrungen einbringen.
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I'm looking for an Executive Director for Digital to join my top team @CitizensAdvice. We're a people-centred service with digital at the heart of all we do, from advice to the data that powers our amazing advocacy, and a big strategic agenda. Interested? jobtrain.co.uk/citizensadvic…
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Natalie Jones, SRO for the GOV.UK One Login programme at @GDSTeam, is on a mission to build the greenest digital services possible. Take a look at this initial post for more information: gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/08/22/g…
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This month marks 7 years since we took our first live payment with @GOVUK Pay, the platform that lets government teams take payments from their digital services. Looking ahead, there's 6 things we want to do with Pay. Read: gds.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/06/g…
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