19th December 2014 London, UK
I’ve just been presenting to senior Foreign Office leaders on our digital work in 2014. It’s been a momentous year. The Digital Transformation Unit we envisaged in the Digital Strategy became fully operational this spring. The Unit brought new skills into the Foreign Office – expertise in the delivery of modern digital services, expertise in […]
19th May 2014 London, UK
Last week saw our annual Leadership Conference when Ambassadors from around the world return to London to look at how the Foreign Office can deliver most effectively for British nationals. Like last year, the opportunities offered by digital to improve our work were a theme through the event. The week started with the Digital Transformation […]
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20th December 2013 London, UK
One year ago this week we published the Foreign Office Digital Strategy, looking at how we would make the most of the opportunities of digital in our work. The Strategy set a clear vision – making use of digital tools in every element of foreign policy work; and moving to provide our services digitally by […]
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16th October 2013 London, UK
Early in 2012, we agreed the FCO would be a “trailblazer” – one of the first departments to move to the government’s new single site GOV.UK. Travel advice visited by millions each year as well as over 200 country pages in over 35 languages are now on the site. One year on from GOV.UK’s launch, […]
3rd October 2013 London, UK
I blogged in July on some upcoming opportunities to join the Foreign Office Digital Team. We’ve now externally advertised some great jobs. First, four digital transformation roles: Two Digital Transformation Manager roles – driving and defining how the FCO will move its services to digital and also helping drive improvement in our internal software and […]
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11th July 2013 London, UK
The FCO’s Digital Strategy, published last December, set an ambitious vision: a Foreign Office that makes full use of digital tools to enhance foreign policy formulation; and a Foreign Office that provides its consular services digitally by default, delivering more effective services and allowing us to spend more time on the most vulnerable Brits abroad. […]
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12th June 2013 London, UK
Every year UK Ambassadors return to London to look at how the Foreign Office can most effectively deliver UK priorities overseas. A key focus of those meetings is “diplomatic excellence”, working to ensure the UK has the most effective diplomatic service in the world. This year the use of digital tools to enhance UK diplomacy […]
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25th March 2013 London, UK
Our consular services and worldwide pages are now on GOV.UK, the last major part of our move to the single government website. This has been a substantial exercise, involving around 250 sites and tens of thousands of pages of content. It has involved close work over six months between the Government Digital Service and FCO, […]
20th December 2012 London, UK
Today we’ve published the Foreign Office Digital Strategy. The process of writing that strategy has been an intense one. We organised workshops with policy and service delivery staff, held teleconferences with …
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25th September 2012 London, UK
The Foreign Office is working up a Digital Strategy looking at how we can use digital to work more effectively and deliver more effectively for UK citizens.
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