URL: rewiredstate.org/projects/what-makes-a-centre We previously blogged about helping to create a prototype SMS text message service for the Government’s UK Online Centres. The centres help people get online for the first time, and are a key part of the government’s strategy for Digital Engagement. We also worked on a handful of data visualisations to highlight the [...]
Category: Web Development
Digital inclusion goes mobile
August 23, 2010 – 12:42 pm
URL: rewiredstate.org/projects/sms-centre-finder There are 61 million people in the UK and 10 million of them have never used the Web. How would you help someone to get online for the first time? The job of the Government’s UK Online Centres is to help bridge the digital divide, by providing places with free public Internet and [...]
Show me the money
July 3, 2010 – 10:26 am
URL: guardian.co.uk/datablog/…infovis (fullscreen version) There’s been a lot of discussion recently about public spending, amidst a global recession, countries in crisis and the emergency budget. The Guardian has been following this closely and, when the UK Treasury released “Coins“, its huge database of Government spending, the Guardian invited a small group of programmers and experts to [...]
Festive Geekery
September 3, 2009 – 9:26 pm
It’s geek festival season, down here in Brighton. First up is dConstruct, a one-day conference on the cutting edge of interface design and user engagement. And then it’s good old BarCamp Brighton, now into its fourth incarnation. BarCamp, always a favourite, is a handmade 2-day conference, pulled together by its community of participants. Everyone gives [...]
Teen Hackers Take Over Google
August 26, 2009 – 12:01 pm
At the weekend, I helped mentor a group of tech-minded teenagers at the community-led event, “Young Rewired State“. Held at Google’s London HQ, this was a two-day, action-packed programme for 15-18 year olds to build something better with government data on the web. And the results were truly impressive. Young people are sometimes written-off as [...]
BBC World Service Widget Launched
July 20, 2009 – 10:05 am
We recently completed an exciting project for BBC World Service: the World Service Widget, which lets people share BBC World Service content on their websites, blogs or computer desktops. It’s being released on a number of web platforms (WordPress, iGoogle, Adobe Air, Facebook, Netvibes, Mac Dashboard, Vista Sidebar and as a simple snippet of HTML [...]
OpenFreecycle won at OpenHackLondon!
May 15, 2009 – 3:20 pm
URL: dharmafly.com/openfreecycle Streuth. Hot on the heels of last week’s UnLtdWorld award, I was amazed to experience the web application that I created with Tom Leitch being awarded the top two prizes Yahoo’s OpenHackLondon. And this, after winning a prize with ‘HackHUD‘ at the previous Hack Day London, two years earlier (the famous one, when [...]
Put Yourself on the Map
December 4, 2008 – 11:00 am
If you had a map and you could show it to anyone, what would you put on it? These days, maps are playing a big part in the development of social media. Imagine you were to run an event, or make a journey around the world, how could you represent it online? How could you [...]
Basecamp. A Project Manager’s Friend.
October 23, 2008 – 12:47 pm
How many hours of your life have you spent rifling through emails and looking for all the bits associated with projects? And how often have you been cc’d into an email that was only marginally relevant to your work? If you’re into managing projects and keeping things together, then Basecamp is your friend. Basecamp is [...]
3-2-1, Blast Off to Planet Crunchy
September 6, 2008 – 9:30 am
URL: dharmafly.com/crunchies Planet what? ‘Planet‘ sites are a new and wonderful way to draw people with common interests together online… and today is the day we get to demonstrate how. What’s all this green stuff? This weekend, at Barcamp Brighton3, we’re giving Brighton’s best New Media pros some special treats, in the form of Dharmafly [...]