What’s been going on recently? – well quite a bit really. I’m now settled into my new job at Consumer Focus Labs. We’ve spent a few weeks getting our systems set up (not as easy a task as we’d have liked), our development environment in place and courting ideas from anyone and everyone. We’re now [...]
Posts Tagged ‘government’
Time for Change
March 23rd, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
I’ve been a part of the team at VSI for the best part of nine years, originally as a summer job, but more recently as a full time developer. During this time I’ve seen significant changes in the way the internet works, from new technologies and new standards in design, to new ways of communicating [...]
Talking about Website Accessibility
March 6th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Earlier today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Dublin, Robin Christopherson from UK charity AbilityNet gave a talk on website accessibility. I’ve seen quite a few different talks and sessions on website accessibility and understand how important this topic is. This talk however really hit home – Robin is blind and gave the [...]
CllrTweeps – The Directory of UK Councillors on Twitter
February 15th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
A quick update this week! Last weekend I was pleased to launch CllrTweeps. The new site, inspired by TweetMinster, aims to list every local councillor in the UK who is on Twitter. After our first week online, we have already tracked down and verified the first 100 councillors using the service. The first version of [...]
School Closure Information
February 3rd, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 3 Comments.
Unless you’ve been in a cave (or outside of the UK) for the last few days, you’ll know that we’ve been experiencing the fun of a ‘severe snow event’. The exact definition of a severe snow event remains unanswered, and I’ll leave the debate over whether what we’ve been experiencing is severe to another time. [...]
It’s official… politics 2.0 is here
January 24th, 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This week it feels like a new phase in social media and the internet has begun. The beginning of the week saw America inaugurate a technology-savvy president, who, along with his team, appears to understand the importance of technology and the internet. Throughout last year, Barack Obama and his team made fantastic use of social [...]
Cinema-style content ratings for websites
December 29th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Recently, the UK Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Andy Burnham did an interview with The Telegraph. During the interview he confirmed that the government was looking into a cinema-style rating system for websites. As a web developer, hosting provider and internet user, I do not understand how such [...]
A look at government branding
November 20th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
A few days ago I came across an article about the branding of the Dutch Government. It appears that they are fed up of having different brand for each of their 200(ish) departments and ministries. Instead, they are developing a single ‘Government’ brand that will be used for everything the government does, irrespective of the [...]