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Shining a light on Hack the North 2.0 winners 'Team Beacon'
Software engineer Diane Reddell talks about her experience of winning the Hack The North 2.0 event and the potential for taking the winning idea forward.
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Success for Searchlight
Here in DWP Digital we’re absolutely delighted to have scooped the Best Public Sector Project award at last week’s National Technology Awards.
How we are using robotics and intelligent automation
What is Robotic Process Automation really all about? Shaun Williamson, Senior Product Owner, Shaun explains in his guest blog for Government Computing.
How to run a hackathon
DWP Sheffield is a young hub. We just hosted our first hack. And with all the unearned confidence of youth, I'm going to tell you how to host your own, based on our limited experience.
Guest post: Collaboration and innovation at DWP's Tech Lab
I’m Justin O’Dwyer and I work for Objectivity, a software development and maintenance company. Last summer I spent two weeks at DWP Digital’s Tech Lab in Warrington as part of a secondment opportunity.
Back to school
In DWP we’re passionate about building capability for our people and giving them the right skills to do the job. One of the ways we do this is by offering the opportunity to ‘go back to school’. In the same …
Why are a million digital techies interested in DWP?
We had a fantastic day at the #nextsprint. 500 thought leaders, innovators, partners and prospective colleagues competed for 250 places to attend. We started and ended with a standing audience as the next generation of digital technologists explored service design, …
Launching the Next Sprint
In DWP, we’re proactively designing and delivering our digital future on a massive scale. We’re at the heart of a new approach to digital technology in government, an approach which is already making a big difference to colleagues and claimants …
The DNA of infrastructure blood
We can use the analogy of DNA to describe how the Department’s IT infrastructure sets the blueprint for future IT services. It’s core to our ability to provide better services to our customers and colleagues. We can also draw parallels …
The importance of innovation
From the dawn of the web to Google: Julian Harris tells us about his passion for technology and why he made the leap to the public sector.