The FCDO's digital work
11th August 2014 London, UK
Hello there, I’m Phil Buckley, a Digital Transformation Manager at the Foreign Office. On 1 August we released a new application form for the Chevening scholarship programme and I wanted to tell you a little more about it. Why we had to change the system I mentioned in my post introducing Service Transformation at the […]
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7th August 2014 London, UK
Diplomacy, and the Foreign Office, played a key role as events unfolded in the run-up to the First World War. For this reason FCO Historians wanted to mark the event but in an innovative way, and joined up with the Digital Team to use Twitter to take a fresh approach to telling a familiar story. […]
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6th August 2014 London, UK
A key part of the FCO’s digital strategy is to build digital skills and knowledge across our network – over 13,000 people in nearly 270 offices around the world. In the Digital Transformation Unit we knew that we wouldn’t achieve this just with classroom training courses or lectures delivered in London, so we’ve taken an […]
18th July 2014 London, UK
This is the last in a series of 3 blog posts about the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. See blog 1 and blog 2. “Hi, Marjourie how are you?” “Hi, I’m fine, thank you Toby” “How are things in Goma (East DRC) today?” “Fine…not good actually…we had a busy night. Four more […]
14th July 2014 London, UK
This is the second in a series of 3 blog posts about the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. See blog 1 and blog 3. Having done the groundwork (see blog posting) the FCO’s digital team role during the Summit was twofold: To take the summit and fringe to those outside. To bring […]
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14th July 2014 London, UK
This is the first in a series of 3 blog posts about the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict. See blog 2 and blog 3. In June the former Foreign Secretary and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, co-chaired a 4 day Global Summit to End Sexual Violence […]
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14th July 2014 London, UK
Six months ago the Foreign Office had a digital news manager responsible for publishing Foreign Office press releases and speeches on gov.uk, tweeting out our news announcements, live tweeting Ministerial speeches and statements to Parliament and commissioning multimedia like vines, video and pictures to support our messaging. Sitting in another room was the Press Office, […]
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8th July 2014 London, UK
The Digital Transformation Unit (DTU) was set up to use Digital technology to transform the Foreign Office in three ways: firstly in communications, secondly in policy, and thirdly the area in which I work, in the services which the Foreign Office offers the public. It’s quite possible to go through your whole life without using […]
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28th May 2014
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and our global diplomatic network lead the way in the development of digital diplomacy (or “Twiplomacy” as it is sometimes called: Twitter + Diplomacy). Some people, retired diplomats amongst them, have been critical of “tweeting ambassadors”. Yet our experience has been a positive one. Whether we like it or not, we […]
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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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