Digital Public
Address:
- 60 Great Portland Street
- London
- W1W 7RT
Telephone Number:
020 7099 5200Fax Number:
020 7099 5201Website:
http://www.digitalpublic.co.ukEmail:
enquiries@digitalpublic.co.ukGeneral Description:
Digital Public is an award-winning consultancy specialising in helping public sector organisations design and launch new services.
Since being founded in 2002, Digital Public has placed innovation, creativity, and digital thinking at the heart of our approach in order to help clients overcome challenging issues and find new ways to engage with citizens, workforces and stakeholders.
Digital Public is part of The Engine Group, one of the UK's fastest growing integrated communications groups.
To keep up to date with the latest developments, discussions and debates on digital thinking, visit our blog, or click here to follow us on Twitter.
Activities:
Our projects usually focus on business strategy formulation and implementation, often for policy delivery initiatives where we have been instrumental in developing that policy. They include the design and launch of Teachers TV for the DCSF, an ongoing redesign of the way that NHS Direct serves its customers, and design and delivery of a service to significantly improve witnesses' attendance at court cases.
We don’t believe in delivering off-the-shelf solutions, but work in partnership with our clients to develop innovative bespoke solutions that meet their needs, and their budgets.
Key Personnel:
All our team have extensive experience of delivering services to customers, often at senior level, in both the public and private sectors. Recruited from a wide range of disciplines for their creativity, expertise, knowledge as well as the ability to work pragmatically to deliver change for our clients, they are practitioners as well as consultants and therefore are able to offer clients a truly innovative approach.
Neil Morris – Joint CEO & Founder
Neil Morris is one of the UK’s leading experts in public sector communications. He has 20 years’ experience in communications, public awareness and long-term engagement of audiences. He was the BBC’s first Commissioning Editor for Interactive TV, leading a pioneering department and winning a BAFTA for the Wimbledon interactive application. He set up and ran the digital media division of multi-channel broadcaster UKTV. His background was as a journalist at the BBC, where he covered wars in Bosnia and Rwanda and was launch Programme Editor for BBC News 24, News Editor at Reuters TV and GMTV and journalist on national and regional newspapers.
Neil has an industry-wide reputation as an innovator - using digital channels and digital thinking to help invigorate communications with audiences, open dialogue and provide information, advice and guidance. He is a founding Partner of Digital Public, where he has concentrated upon developing public awareness campaigns, long-term communications and engagement channels with parents and schools in particular.
Jonathan Peachey - Joint CEO & Founder
Jonathan is one of the founding partners of Digital Public and has been leading the business for the last seven years. He has over 20 years’ experience as a consultant, business leader and digital strategist. At Digital Public he specialises in business, health and education, media strategy, digital communications technology and social media.
Since co-founding Digital Public, Jonathan has designed and led our work on the multi-award winning Teachers TV, a community of practice to help build capability and skills amongst local authority workers, and the redesign of NHS Direct to offer health advice and support over digital channels as well as over the phone.
Before Digital Public, Jonathan was CEO of Telewest’s interactive media agency SmashedAtom and VP Interactive at Flextech Television. He is a chartered accountant and has a background in management consultancy and digital media.
Jonathan Akwue – Director
Jonathan originally trained as a designer and has worked across several disciplines including social marketing and communications, enterprise and management, web services and music publishing.
Jonathan joined Digital Public having previously been the Director of Business and Enterprise at In-volve, a national Third Sector organisation that engages so called ‘hard to reach’ young people and adults. He has significant expertise in reaching marginalised audiences, and helped to pioneer approaches to engage young people in health and social education. It is this experience that has helped inform the development of multi-channel solutions for clients including BBC 1Xtra, the Ministry of Justice, the COI, and the Department for Children Schools and Families.
Alliances:
As part of the Engine Group, Digital public work with a selection of trusted partners, each with specialist knowledge across a range of disciplines.
UK Office Locations:
We have two offices in central London. Our head office can be found on Great Portland Street, a short walk from Oxford Circus:
60 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 7RT
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Our satellite office is based in Victoria, a short walk from Whitehall:
33 Catherine Place
London
SW1E 6DY
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Consultancy Services:
Digital Public’s work spans a number of practice areas, channels and products. For more information and case studies relating to each, please click here.
Practise Areas:
- Families
- Education
- Business
- Health
- Workforce
- Children and Young people
- Social Exclusion
- Local Government
Channels:
- Interactive/Digital
- Social media (Web 2.0)
- Multi-channel
- Mobile
- TV/DVD
- Games
Products:
- Concept development
- Service design and launch
- Procurement support
- Stakeholder and supplier management
- Performance optimization
- Cost reduction and effectiveness reviews
- Channel strategy development