CronxTech round-up: 2022 Winter update
Your quarterly roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community.
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CronxTech round-up: 2022 Summer update
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community.
CronxTech roundup: 2022 Spring update
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community.
CronxTech roundup: 2022 kick-off
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community.
CronxTech roundup: together in electric dreams
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community, for autumn 2021.
The new croydon.gov.uk: looking back on going live
Croydon Council's website moved to LocalGov Drupal earlier this year. Here's a retrospective.
CronxTech roundup: end of summer tech buzz
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community, although we know it’s been a while!
Shop local: new app launches in South Norwood
Loqiva is piloting the Love South Norwood app, with other Croydon neighbourhoods getting apps of their own in the near future.
CronxTech roundup: Croydon’s best and brightest
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
Goodbye Croydon Digital Meetup, hello LinkedIn
Join our tech community on LinkedIn to keep up to date with our latest event news.
Apply now: Up to £20,000 innovation grants available to Croydon businesses
The Business Recovery & Innovation Grants Fund makes government funds available to support Croydon businesses impacted by the pandemic.
CronxTech roundup: local tech buzz for local tech people
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon's tech community.
CronxTech roundup: Croydon’s tech bloggers carry on the good work
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
Croydon goes live with LocalGov Drupal
The council's new website reaches a major milestone as it switches to the open source codebase, built by councils for councils.
CronxTech roundup: lockdown advice, new launches, partnerships and more
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
Microsoft comes to Croydon: free virtual courses for SMEs
As part of their mission to help Croydoners break into tech, the Microsoft Team are supporting the digital community with free virtual training sessions.
CronxTech roundup: innovation and inspiration from across the tech sector
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
London Mayor launches ‘Resilience’ fund
Grants of up to £30,000 are available to help London's communities and businesses recover from lockdown.
Watch the highlights from our Discover Digital Croydon event at London Tech Week
A look back at our fun virtual showcase of diverse Croydon Tech at last week's event.
Our London Tech Week event: Discover Digital Croydon, the London Tech Cluster with actual community
We’re running a fun, PechaKucha-style showcase of Croydon tech on 10 September as part of London Tech Week 2020.
CronxTech roundup: new faces, new releases and new normal
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
A new Creative Digital Lab is coming to Croydon – have your say on what it offers!
Croydon Council is asking local creative businesses to give feedback on a planned digital initiative for the borough.
Cronx merch: the definitive guide
We round up the very best Croydon-branded fashion, mugs, prints and more.
CronxTech roundup: Croydon’s tech bloggers on lockdown easing, digital marketing and more
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
Designing a service status page for Croydon.gov.uk
The council's website delivery team designed a new page to collate all the changes to council services during lockdown in one easy-to-navigate spot.
Croydon’s tech community on taking care of your business and yourself
A roundup of what Croydon's tech community has been blogging about in the past few weeks.
dotdigital rated top e-marketer in global research by Forrester Wave
The international tech buyers’ guide called Croydon-based e-marketer dotdigital a “strong performer”.
Croydon named one of the UK’s top 10 tech destinations
Croydon ranks among the top spots in the country for tech businesses, according to research by UHY Hacker Young.
Connect and Protect: GovTech Digital Inclusion virtual roundtable on Wednesday 3 June
If you're involved in tech, the public sector or charities (or all 3) come along to this techUK event to discuss how to best support vulnerable people remotely.
Croydon internet radio station wins FM licence
Our local community station won one of only 6 FM licences handed out by regulator Ofcom.
Croydon tech businesses on working from home and staying connected
Croydon’s businesses share advice on how to keep your business going, stay connected and work from home effectively.
Take a virtual investor tour of Croydon
Experience a virtual guided tour of the borough to see first-hand the scale of development and investment opportunities available in the town centre and beyond.
Award-winning The Cronx Brewery officially one of the best in the country
Congrats to our local independent microbrewery, a much-loved part of the Croydon scene.
Natterbox’s “big growth trajectory” continues with £7.5m equity funding
Croydon-based telecoms and customer service innovator begins next phase of its impressive growth
Croydon named 2nd best office location in London (but we know it’s really the best!)
Just another reason why Croydon is the perfect place for tech start-ups and scale-ups.
Digital experts launch TMRW Collective: a new agency for unprecedented times
The TMRW Collective is an awesome new digital agency launched in response to the coronavirus pandemic, uniting 10 industry experts from TMRW Hub in one multidisciplinary team.
Come and help shape the future of CDS!
The Croydon Digital Service is hiring two senior roles to lead on product and delivery, and strategic systems. Join us!
Why mission patch stickers matter (and how to get a Croydon Digital one!)
A tribute to the humble laptop sticker, used by CDS and digital teams everywhere to celebrate good work and communicate values.
It’s a lock-in! Kicking off 2020 with 2 days of rapid decision-making
How the council’s digital team ran intensive sessions to supercharge their agile practice for the year ahead.
A year of #notmessingaround
Reflections on a year of ambitious digital delivery since Croydon Council hired its first CDO.
It’s alive! Presenting the beta of a new council website
Today I’m excited and proud to share the work of the website delivery team – a soft launch of our new website.
A potted history of the Croydon.gov.uk website
Now this is a post all about how council comms got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how we first got a website in the town called Croydon.
Londonist: Forget Silicon Roundabout – it’s all about Silicon Flyover in Croydon now
A piece written for Londonist on why these days, it's all about Silicon Flyover, not Silicon Roundabout.
Ain’t no party like a Croydon Business Excellence Awards party
Smart parking startup Hozah crowned 2019’s best business for digital, data and tech - closely followed by Uniqodo and Rise Media.
Results of croydon.digital beta service assessment
Better late than never, here's the verdict on whether the Croydon Digital blog team managed to pass the high standards they set themselves.
Making information easier to find for families of children with SEND
We redesigned the Local Offer website aimed at families of children with special educational needs and disability (SEND) to make it simpler and quicker to find what they need.
Meet the shortlist for this year’s Croydon Business Excellence Awards
Loads of great Croydon techies are honoured in this year’s awards shortlist. But who are they and what do they do?
OneTeamGov comes to Croydon: OneTeamCronx is born!
Croydon Council, the Home Office and the Land Registry were some of the organisations taking part at the first Croydon meeting of this boundary-breaking public sector movement.
“A truly digital council and borough” – Croydon’s bold new digital strategy is live
The new digital strategy got the official approval at the council's Cabinet meeting on 8 July 2019.
A new digital strategy for Croydon – how your input helped
Around 200 people shared ideas for Croydon’s new digital strategy. Here’s what they said and how it helped.
A new digital strategy for Croydon – update
The draft text of Croydon Council's new digital strategy is now available to read and comment - please let us know your views.
Big changes on their way for Croydon Digital
Rebooting the Croydon Digital brand and website with a much improved design, better content and new features.
Interview: How Croydon is applying GDS lessons to digital service delivery
Croydon's Chief Digital Officer talks to Computer Weekly about what we’re up to in the Cronx.
Who will be crowned Croydon’s best business for digital, data and technology in 2019?
Applications are open now.
A new digital strategy for Croydon – seeking your ideas
Launching strategy.croydon.digital - a public consultation on the vision and strategy for a more digital Croydon.
Croydon council’s digital service is hiring designers and user researchers
Are you experienced in service design, content design or user research?
Bringing our new technology partners together
We heard from our new partners and what their vision for the future is.
Free digital and agile awareness course in Croydon!
Join the council in becoming more digital and agile savvy. Free for local public servants.
Introducing Ash Balakrishnan and Croydon Digital drinks
Croydon resident and seasoned tech networker Ash will be helping to bring our community together.
Helping our digital business community sell to the public sector
Notes and practical tips from our packed-out event.
Jobs roundup – software development, software support and user research
There are a few new jobs on the Croydon Digital jobs page worth your attention.
Croydon Digital is now open for submissions!
Croydon Digital is written by the community, for the community. Get writing!
New jobs on Croydon Digital – including Head of Digital Place
Check out the latest data and technology posts on our jobs page.
Our next event: selling to government
Find out how to best to approach selling to the public sector.
Helping City Hall assess the quality of their digital services
Working in the open for the win! Find out how the council is sharing digital best practice with its peers.
About the Croydon Digital Service
The new team in the council, leading the digital transformation of the council's services, and the digital enhancement of our borough.
A grand day out for the council’s digital team
Notes from the council's digital team away day at the offices of the impressive and inspiring Government Digital Service.
Digital, data and tech job opportunities in Croydon
The Croydon Digital Service is hiring!
Introducing Annie Heath
Hello! I'm Annie Heath and I’m so pleased to be joining Croydon Council as Digital Design Manager.
Croydon is digital and we’re #notmessingaround
Introducing Croydon Digital, a blog for and by the digital changemakers of Croydon.
Launching Croydon Digital at Croydon Tech Forum
Hello, World! Introducing the council's new digital leadership to the local tech community.