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A guide to creating user-centric data commissions

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A lot of us rely on getting data from outside our teams to help us to do our jobs. Data that we then use to make decisions. If higher quality data means our judgement can be more accurate, then it’s clearly in our best interests to do all we can to facilitate high calibre information sharing. Fiona Macauley, Product Manager at CDDO shares her top tips for data commissions.

Our Technical Cloud Community is blooming

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Our cross-government Cloud community is helping us make the right decisions about Cloud: Which Cloud? Private or Public? Managed service? Infrastructure as code? In this blog Phil Chatterton, Chief Enterprise Architect shares his thoughts on what next.

Transforming for a Digital Future - six month update

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It’s six months since we launched the Transforming for a Digital Future strategy. Megan Lee Devlin, Chief Executive of CDDO discusses the impressive progress we, and government, have made against our original six missions.

The Digital Excellence Programme

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In our latest blog, you can read about the Digital Excellence Programme, specifically designed for current and aspiring Senior Civil Servants. Find out about the programme, and be part of the change by signing up for the pilot courses starting in February 2023.

Data Challenge 2023: the semi-finals

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The latest CDDO blog covers the infamous Civil Service Data Challenge, which is open to all Civil Servants regardless of department, role or grade, seeking  ideas on how government can better improve its use of data, with a prize of 50,000 and development support for the winning submission on offer.

How do you solve the Software Developer shortage across Government? Emerging talent!

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The DDaT Profession Talent team at CDDO have been developing a variety of talent programmes to support departmental DDaT workforce pipelines across government, and we are now excited to announce the launch of our new Software Developer Graduate Scheme.

The scheme signals a step change in how we diversify our graduate offer and directly addresses the shortfall in software developer talent across government.

CDDO’s Autumn of Digital Learning

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The Autumn of Digital Learning continues and, due to popular demand, the successful Innovation Masterclass is back!. Read the latest CDDO blog to find out, and benefit from, all about the latest digital learning opportunities available!

Building a Government Cloud Technical Community

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The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is seeking to build a government technical Cloud community of practice. Read this blog to find out more about the community, and how you can join to help shape the future of Cloud in government.