The use of data-driven technologies within the criminal justice system raises a host of challenging ethical issues, such as how to ensure automated decisions are explainable, or how to design governance processes to promote ethical principles such as sustainability, accountability, …
Where shall I start, we as a team have achieved so much in so little time! In an era of rapid technological advancements, organisations must continuously evolve to meet the ever-growing demands of their customers. Justice Digital is no different. …
I am a User Researcher working in Justice Digital as part of the HMPPS Digital team, we enable effective digital services for all who interact with the prison and probation service. The day I joined Justice Digital, a new digital …
There is a new buzzword, Zero Trust (ZT), that is cropping up at every cyber conference and there are streams of online publications referencing its approach. While the concept has existed for a decade, it has gained a lot more …
If you haven’t heard of the Government Service Standard, well you have now. Those of us in the business of building digital products and services in the public sector use this framework to make sure we create the right thing, …
At the end of last year, MoJ’s Data Engineering teams got together in Shoreditch for our largest ever 2 day hackathon. We had three teams, each working on a separate project which would incorporate technology the organisation wished to investigate. …
As part of our MoJ and wider Government strategy, we are putting cloud first. The MoJ has been taking strides toward this for a few years via Digital's Platform and Architecture modernisation and hosting offers. Technology Services has now adopted …
The original 'It's okay to' poster was created by GDS to communicate the 'unofficial' ways of working and to help create a safe psychological environment for new team members. At Justice Digital (the digital arm of the Ministry of Justice), …
When we set out our digital strategy a year ago we, somewhat unusually, started from the bottom and summed up the impact of a lot of in-flight work and over 40 individual strategies. This isn’t the way that you might …
My name is Alexander Pulley and I am a team leader within the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG). Some of you might have heard of the OPG and some of you may even be our customers. At OPG, we …
We are four early-career designers at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). We’ve developed a buddy group to support each other, building on the wider support we’ve received from others in the MoJ user-centred design community. We’ll be talking more about …
