The Civil Pages is a computer system that acts as a private social media site for the UK
Civil Service
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...
. It was set up by
The National Archives on behalf of the
Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet. It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and which co-ordinate the delivery of government objecti ...
. It debuted shortly after an incident where the head of
MI6 was identified in a holiday snap on Facebook. The head of the Civil Service,
Gus O'Donnell described civil pages as '... the Facebook of the Civil Service ... without the man in the Speedos'. The system is based on Confluence, an enterprise wiki from
Atlassian and was developed by Adaptavist.
References
External links
Civil Pages LaunchesAdaptavist - the developers of Civil Pages
Government databases in the United Kingdom
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