Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight – Summary of Become a futurist, by the Metafuture School

I recently completed a course on Futures Studies – Become a futurist, by the Metafuture School. Here are some of the key insights. General planning thinks about one future. Futures thinking, in contrast, thinks about multiple possible futures. (The field of futures/foresight used to be about concrete things like predicting future demand, but there’s so …

Cross-government design meeting #33: Measuring success – 18/1/22

The cross-government design community runs great events. Here are some highlights from my notes from last week’s session on measuring success. Measuring the value of service transformation – Matthew Lyon, Head of Economics and Analysis, Central Digital and Data Office (Cabinet Office) Reform of the Animal Licensing service led to a 50% reduction in processing …

Interoperability, Open Standards and APIs

I recently attended GDS Tech Talks: Interoperability and Open Standards. Here are my notes on the sessions I attended. What’s new in Web Standards? – Dan Appelquist Dan is Samsung Internet Director of Web Advocacy, co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and Open Standards Board member. Connections between the web and your device:  WebNFC …

ODI Summit 2019 – summary

A summary of the sessions I attended at the Open Data Institute’s Summit on 12 November 2019 Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, interviewed by Zoe Kleinman Tim Berners-Lee described commercial advertising as “win-win”, because targeted advertising is more relevant. But “political advertising is very different… people are being manipulated into voting for things which are …