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‘Government as a data model’ : what I learned in Estonia
I’ve just got back from a few days in the Republic of Estonia, looking at how they deliver their digital services and sharing stories of some of the work we are up to here in the UK. We have an ongoing...
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Better support across government
Today we’ve published the latest quarterly progress report about the work we’ve been doing with departments on the Government Digital Strategy. It highlights how we have turned our attention to...
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GDS goes to Cabinet and the OGP summit
This week Mike Bracken has news of GDS’ presentation to the Cabinet at No.10 and Nayeema Chowdhury talks about sharing GDS’ work at the Open Government Partnership summit. Follow Mike Bracken on...
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Walking the talk in New York
Today is the election for the next Mayor of New York City. Mike Bloomberg cannot stand for a third term, and there are more than a dozen challengers competing to take his place. Whoever wins, I hope...
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Meeting the technology needs of government
We asked Matthew Coats from the Ministry of Justice, to talk about his experience at the first meeting of the Technology Leaders Network In the Ministry of Justice I’ve already seen the positive impact...
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Co-operating with Korea to put users first
On my recent trip to Korea, I was hugely impressed by the technological innovation on display and by the progress on the digital development of the public sector. That why it was a pleasure yesterday...
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Digital skills at the very top
An important part of the work we are doing on capability building is making sure that people who will be leading public services in the future really understand what digital by default means; for...
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GDS this week: Sprint Share and Performance Platform update
On Thursday 7 November we hosted Sprint Share in Birmingham, the latest of our Sprint events for people in government to share their experiences of transforming UK digital services. Phil Buckley,...
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A supplier framework for building digital services
For almost a year I’ve been part of a small team helping to create a new way for government to work with companies that design and build digital services. The result is the first iteration of the...
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A year of departments and policy all in one place
Last month we celebrated the first anniversary of GOV.UK’s launch. Today marks one year since the first two departmental domains were switched over, and the “Departments and policy” section (then known...
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Playing around with data
The Performance Platform exposes a lot of service data to interested parties, both within government and outside of it. We thought it would be interesting to tap into the platform, pluck out individual...
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GDS this week: GOV.UK transition update and G-Cloud4
This week we celebrated that we have transitioned more than 100 websites to GOV.UK over the last 12 months; 102 to be exact. Elisse Jones, GOV.UK Departmental Engagement Lead, talks about the...
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Reaching all our users
For the Individual Electoral Registration project I’ve been out and about doing user research around the UK. These pop-up research days are fascinating, frustrating, scary and fun. However much I plan,...
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Agile testing at the Home Office
More and more teams across government are getting involved in the transformation programme. We asked Mat Costick to write about his experiences working on an Agile project. I’m the portfolio test...
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GDS this week: Ministry of Justice transformation update
Last week we paid a visit to the Ministry of Justice to find out more about the innovative work going on there to bring legal services online. Kit Collingwood tells us about how great it feels for the...
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Opening the doors of the Digital Services Store
A couple of weeks ago, the Digital Services framework went live. Today we’re opening up the Digital Services Store. Buyers in government can browse the suppliers on the framework, and then filter on...
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Thank you, Martha
It’s just been announced that Martha Lane Fox is stepping down from her role as the UK’s Digital Champion. Martha’s been an inspiration to us here at GDS, and the tremendous impact she’s had right...
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Breaking barriers and opening doors
Today is the 2013 International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This year’s theme, “Break Barriers, Open Doors: for an inclusive society and development for all”, resonates deeply with me. My work...
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Setting open standards for government documents
When I ran the open standards consultation, I heard first hand the effect that government’s choice of technology was having on people. Take documents, for example. You might think sending something to...
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GDS this week: GOV.UK meets Ontario.ca and Digital Services Store now open
This week GDS Head of Content Design Sarah Richards talks about meeting our counterparts from Canada, Ontario.ca, and their exciting One Site project, and Josh Russell and Warren Smith explain how the...
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