ignite: for good' presentation 7: localgovdigital: end of level boss of digital by default, dan...
DESCRIPTION
This is Dan Hilton's presentation which he gave during the 'Ignite: For Good' evening mySociety hosted on 29th October 2014 as part of the Bath Digital Festival. Description: If the whole of the public sector needs to become digital by default, then local government needs to be able to deploy and run digital services without hiring every maker in Western Europe. We need methods so simple that we can enable even the smallest public sector organisation (think parish council, board of governors at a primary school) to be able to run the very best in digital services, on bootstrapped start-up budgets.TRANSCRIPT
LocalGovDigital:
End of level boss
of digital by
defaultDan Hilton
23% of all Government expenditure is
through local gov.
A room with bunting and developers
Three weeks to buy a white board
56k modems just being decommissioned
One, ten year old server controls planning
The end of level boss
/ Monster in the room
1.You can’t just hire really good people, there
aren’t enough.
2.You can’t rm -rf *
3. We can’t buy their way out.
(We don’t have the money)
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up
the men to gather wood, divide the work
and give orders. Instead, teach them to
yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A brief story about Bins
Universal service, universal need, universal pain.
When are your
bins collected?
Right information, at the right time, can stop
problems occurring, reducing costs to fix.
(Fix bugs early!)
Failure demand costs you money
Request a new bin container.
Pretty please?
Interface standards.
Hot swappable, bake into contracts.
The backchannel is the method of delivery.
We can’t wait for management to age out.
