Last week we were lucky enough to partner with the amazing Chinwag team (as well as Bright Lemon and Kathryn Corrick) in hosting the Digital Mission to Washington DC. We took 10 of the UK’s top digital government companies out to DC for a week of events, meeting the great and the good of the gov20 [...]
The Digital Mission to Washington DC kicked off downtown yesterday in the impressive surroundings of Microsoft’s Innovation and Policy Centre. Leading off were Chuck Morton and Susan Edlavitch, Partners at Venable LLP, in conversation with Louise Eldridge of Finers Stephens Innocent LLP,who gave a legal perspective on the legal environment for tech firms that look [...]
In the words of Paul Revere “the British are coming!”, but this time we come in peace bringing with us a Digital Mission to the fine shores of the United States of America. We have a week of events lined up for 10 UK digital companies and their lucky Digital Pilgrims where they will be meeting [...]
Image: Vinoth Chandar Not long now until a group of digital government and social innovation geeks pack their bags and head over to the US with us and the Digital Mission gang to learn how things are done on the other side of the pond – and hopefully show them a thing or two as [...]
As many of you will already know, FutureGov is somewhat USA curious…
A month ago now, we launched Simpl to our first 100 beta testers and we’re delighted that so many people have already taken the time to explore the very first version of Simpl.co. It’s been really exciting to watch ideas and bids popping up across the site. We’re looking forward to even more coming in now [...]
Photo: gavjof Well it’s not like you didn’t see that one coming now is it? Three years ago this month, after a good few years in local government at Barnet Council in London, I set up FutureGov. It wasn’t really a thing as such. It was me and a name (I gave it a name [...]
This is John. Those of you at CityCamp London in October will remember him. You know, the bloke from IBM who spoke with such breakneck enthusiasm he wore out our two signers and forced them into creative contortions as he made up words which they more than matched with improvised hand gestures. For those of you [...]
It was so exciting to hear Dominic present our latest venture at our Local by Social event the other week. Simpl (Social Innovation MarketPlace) is an idea we had which really just solves a problem for us, but we hope it will scratch an itch for others in the process. Introducing Simpl View more presentations [...]
Things are rather busy on the events front again for FutureGov in the run up to the summer break, so as much for our benefit as yours here’s where you’ll be able to find us during June and July…