The Civil Pages is a computer system that acts as a private social media site for the UK Civil Service. It was set up by

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on behalf of the Cabinet Office. It debuted shortly after an incident where the head of

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was identified in a holiday snap on Facebook. The head of the Civil Service,

Gus O'Donnell Augustine Thomas O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell, (born 1 October 1952) is a former British senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 (under three Prime Ministers) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the Bri ...

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

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and was developed by Adaptavist.

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Civil Pages LaunchesAdaptavist - the developers of Civil Pages
Government databases in the United Kingdom {{UK-gov-stub