The government’s consumer empowerment strategy sets out what government and others could do to help increase consumer insight and understanding of markets and, in that way, enable consumers to get better deals for themselves, both individually and collectively.
Kung Hei Fat Choi! And welcome to the Year of the Horse. How are getting on with your January New Year’s resolutions?
To be or not be was the famous opening phrase of a soliloquy in the Nunnery scene of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Recently I found myself asking a similar question "To Vine or not to Vine."
At BIS we've been working hard on applying digital to policy making projects, with some success.
Journalists aren’t experts. That’s what members of the BIS press office heard on Monday from some of the Guardian’s journalists and digital strategists at a GCS event on digital and open journalism.
I’ve already blogged about some of the barriers to digital engagement that we identified during Digital Fortnight.
We have a cracking team of people here at BIS who do all sorts of good things using social media as part of their day job, which usually involves arranging visits, events and staff outreach.
One of the best elements of Digital Fortnight for was producing our guidance for policy makers on how to use digital as part of a more open approach to policy making.
Digital fortnight wasn't just restricted to our offices in London and Sheffield - Gwenny and I also took it to Birmingham, to meet our colleagues from BIS Local offices.
Today sees the beginning of Digital Fortnight within BIS. And to make things more interesting it’s running from Wednesday to Wednesday.