Julia Lopez: Data is fundamental to government. Let me know your ideas to use it better
The Cabinet Office minister writes for CSW to launch a new Dragons Den-style competition to transform government data for citizens and society
Dragons Den. Photo: Paul Cunningham Alamy Stock
Fans of the Dragons Den television show may recall the record-breaking turn from Henry de Zoete – now a Cabinet Office non-executive director, but in 2018 just another contestant seeking to impress the fearsome judging panel of business investors.
Henry ended up pulling off the best result in the show’s history. He and his partner Will Hodson netted £120,000 from the Dragons in return for a 3% stake and just a year later sold the business – Look After My Bills – for an impressive £12.5m.
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DfE Developer Hub Alpha Reassessment Report
The Department for Education is adopting an API led approach to application integration.
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The Department for Education is adopting an API led approach to application integration. As such, there is a widespread need to establish an enterprise-wide approach to managing and governing APIs in order to:
promote innovation and support a more integrated approach for suppliers and third parties
provide managed access to the department APIs for third-party suppliers
increase re-use in APIs
simplify integration and enable data to be used more effectively across the department
The theme that runs throughout this assessment is a clear view from the assessment panel that the team are close to or at the minimum standard for meeting the service standard. The panel’s concerns and questions are around the broader context of the end-to-end service which they feel is weakly defined and owned by the team.