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Weekend Links: Environment Agency blog, weeknotes, interning at FCO and more
If you find a link you think we’d like, message us @GDSTeam Take a look at the recently launched Environment Agency blog. Learn about work experience opportunities at the Foreign & Commonwealth...
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The Performance Platform: open for business
The Performance Platform is a tool for government to answer the question ‘how are we doing?’. At present, the important facts are not accessible to the right people, at the right time, in the right...
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Getting approval for agile spending
Today, GDS and HM Treasury publish new clarification of business case guidance. We needed to explain how government organisations get permission to spend money on agile work. We consulted central...
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Digital Inclusion Strategy launches today
Last December, we published action 15 of the Government Digital Strategy to show the government’s commitment to digital inclusion. Today, as the Director responsible for this area of work, I wanted to...
View ArticleGOV.UK hosting – simpler, clearer, faster
Recently the Government Digital Service’s infrastructure team moved GOV.UK to a new hosting platform. Find out what happened … Follow the infrastructure team on Twitter: Sam Sharpe: @SamJSharpe Bob...
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Weekend links: Next Generation Testing, HMRC, UK Trade and Investment and more
Found a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter – @gdsteam The Digital Marketplace are talking user research over on their blog. The first £2 million of the £30m government-led Growth...
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User needs and revolutions
In 2010, Martha Lane Fox (the UK’s Digital Champion at the time) completed her review of the government’s web offering. In her letter to Francis Maude she said: There has been a reinvention of the...
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Weekend links: hackathons, time travel, glow-in-the-dark motorways and more
Got a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter – @gdsteam Google Street Map “time machine” of Aviation House Forget Back to the Future – Google Street Map are giving you the chance to go...
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Just doodling: telling the story with a few pen strokes
One thing visitors to the GDS office can’t help noticing is the colourful selection of cartoons and doodles stuck on the walls. Many of them are the work of GDS technical architect Paul Downey. His...
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When to use caps around GOV.UK
Why do we write GOV.UK in capitals? And why is the URL written lower-case? You may well have heard the reasons, but we’ve never actually written them down. Let’s fix that now. When we were thinking...
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Weekend links: more Lego, lessons learned, DVSA and more
Found a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter – @gdsteam The Registered Traveller exemplar at the Home Office talk about their successes and failures when it comes to sharing code...
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Updated assisted digital guidance in the Government Service Design Manual
The Digital By Default Service Standard came into full force this month. We have updated the Government Service Design Manual to help services understand and meet the requirements of criteria 10:...
View ArticleUsing A/B testing to make things better
Our user support analysts have used A/B testing to help 1,000 more users a month find the contact details they’re looking for on GOV.UK. Find out how … Follow Ricky on Twitter, and don’t forget to sign...
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Weekend links: International Space Station, more hackathons, GDS Technology,...
Found a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter @gdsteam. Image courtesy of NASA on a Creative Commons licence Over on GDS technology this week Anna Shipman is talking about building...
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Releasing all the things: a good day for the Performance Platform
Yesterday we released 83 dashboards. We wouldn’t normally plan to release like this. We like to do little and often. However, on this occasion, we have a new overview dashboard which we’ve released for...
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Over 50 million visits and other data stories
The product analysts are always keeping an eye on how GOV.UK is performing, and I thought it would be interesting to share a milestone and some other data about user behaviour. 50 million visits In...
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Weekend links: Instagram, filtered search, cyclotrons and more
Found a link you think we’d like? Share it with us on Twitter @gdsteam. Take a look at DfID’s Instagram feed – great stories and a real insight into their work. Filtered search is changing the way we...
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Reading the digital revolution
On Monday I gave a talk at Sprint Policy, an event discussing the impact digital technology and digital thinking was having on the world of policymaking. I mentioned a few books, blog posts and ways of...
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Open Policy Making and Digital – a happy coupling
So … digital is just about transforming services? No, not in our view, nor in the view of our open policy making colleagues. Yesterday we co-hosted an event with the Open Policy Making (OPM) team in...
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Weekend links: vCloud, Darwin database, proof of concept and more
Found a link you think we’ll like? Share it with us on Twitter @gdsteam. Sarah Richards – our ex Head of Content – says users are selfish; find out what she means in this blog post. The National Rail’s...
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