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Digital Advisory Panel – progress and plans

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Digital Strategy Implementation, Posted on: 4 March 2015 - Categories: Digital for Development

The DFID Digital Advisory Panel is now just over a year old – and as we approach our 6th meeting we thought it was a good time to reflect on what has happened and outline some plans for possible future …

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Introducing DFID’s digital advisory panel

Posted by: Julia Chandler, Digital Strategy Implementation, Posted on: 25 October 2013 - Categories: Digital for Development

As outlined in the digital strategy, DFID has invited a group of digital and development experts with a wealth of different experience to join a digital advisory panel. Their role is to take an overview of our strategy for digital …

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Development through a lens

Posted by: Marisol Grandon, Head of Digital Team, Posted on: 24 May 2013 - Categories: Digital for Development

With news of Yahoo’s Yahoo's $1.1bn purchase of Tumblr still rumbling, I thought I’d seen the big social media story of the week. Then late that same night, surprise news of Flickr's revamp began to emerge. A radical, Pinterest-influenced new …

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Welcome to digital communications

Posted by: Marisol Grandon, Head of Digital Team, Posted on: 24 May 2013 - Categories: Digital for Development

Hello and welcome again to the new Digital for Development blogging group. I am the head of the digital team here in DFID’s communications division in London. I work with a team of talented editors to produce and promote the …

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Digital by default - a new reality for development?

Posted by: Hannah Ryder, Team Leader for Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Posted on: 25 January 2013 - Categories: Technology

A few weeks ago I went to see the new James Bond film Sky Fall. Without giving away too much, at one point in the film James Bond goes to a remote part of the UK. The area is portrayed …

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