A user-centred approach to the new school medical form
Explores how Croydon Council's User-Centred Design team tackled the challenge of improving the school medical form.
Tagged: Croydon Digital
CronxTech round-up: 2022 Winter update
Your quarterly roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community.
How work experience helps young people’s careers
Claire Scaramanga talks to two work experience students about how it can help with young people's careers.
Your vote matters!
ClearCommunityWeb has been nominated for an award at the Croydon Business Excellence Awards.
From building control to bin replacements: putting user-centred design first
Croydon Council’s digital platform team has relished the chance to move on from Covid apps in the last 12 months.
Croydon College launches the Croydon Digital Skills Hub!
The newly launched Hub will give residents the opportunity to gain new skills in the growing industry.
Do you need a laptop?
ClearCommunityWeb have a small selection of Laptops available to help local residents who need access to a computer at home for a short or medium-term loan.
The Home Office are hiring!
Every day, our teams across the UK and beyond deliver outcomes to improve citizens’ lives.
Nexus Talks with Elizabeth Tweedale
Deana Hassanein and Elizabeth Tweedale discuss the benefits of learning to code, being female in the tech industry, and empowering young girls with the confidence to take on coding.
CronxTech roundup: 2022 Spring update
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community.
Digital skills spring programme announced
ClearCommunityWeb have a full programme of activities in Croydon designed to help build confidence and awareness of digital technology.
CronxTech roundup: together in electric dreams
Your regular-ish roundup of news and views from Croydon’s tech community, for autumn 2021.
Goodbye Croydon Digital Meetup, hello LinkedIn
Join our tech community on LinkedIn to keep up to date with our latest event news.
Croydon: making a play for videogame capital
The videogame industry is continuing to expand year on year, and Croydon is playing a big part in its development.
Shaping Future Skills at Education Evolution 2020
Caterham School hosted its third Education Evolution Conference last week, this year in partnership with Croydon Council and Ada, the National College for Digital Skills.
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.
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.
Cronx merch: the definitive guide
We round up the very best Croydon-branded fashion, mugs, prints and more.
Low code helps council face the COVID-19 crisis
Croydon Council is making the most of its newly acquired 'low code' technology to help businesses and residents during the coronavirus lockdown.
Offer Coronavirus (COVID-19) support from your business
Use this service if your business can offer to help respond to the impact of Coronavirus.
New technology challenge to support people who are isolating
£500,000 of funding is available for technology companies who come up with digital support solutions for people who need to stay at home because of coronavirus.
Coronavirus/COVID-19: update on Croydon Digital Events
Several Croydon Digital Events have been postponed to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Check here to find out what's changed and what's on the horizon for CDS.
Come to the Croydon Digital Service open day on Thursday 2 April
Visit CDS in the heart of the Cronx and see local government digital transformation in action!
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!
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.
Overcoming the barriers to code sharing between councils
Croydon and three other councils are starting a project in January to understand the uses and limitations of sharing a Drupal 8 publishing platform.
Designing content for the council’s new website alpha
Content design is a big part of our website redesign project. Find out how we're tackling over 2,500 webpages to make them clearer and easier for users.
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.
Focus on Proptech: Share My Space aims to stop wasted commercial spaces
Chloe Cort, founder of Share My Space, on how she got the idea for a digital tool to relieve the shortage of commercial space for small businesses.
Introducing multidisciplinary teams at the Croydon Digital Service
We adopted a new way of working and had to make it fit to a local authority setting - here's what we learned.
One week to solve a problem: CDS’ first Digital Design Sprint
We built a new team and gave them one week to improve a process in the council - here's what happened.
“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 – update
The draft text of Croydon Council's new digital strategy is now available to read and comment - please let us know your views.
Notes from the first Croydon Digital drinks
Read about our 1st drinks event in Limitless VR, one of the coolest hangouts in Croydon.
Introducing Ash Balakrishnan and Croydon Digital drinks
Croydon resident and seasoned tech networker Ash will be helping to bring our community together.