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Professions and boldness
As the brilliant Janet Hughes says, the civil service should be a place where people can be bold. I especially like this bit: Being bold means bringing your whole self to the situation and engaging...
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A hack day to test Government as a Platform
Last week, GDS hosted a hack day for developers from across government. We welcomed about 30 developers to the Cabinet Office to test out some of the new Government as a Platform components that we’ve...
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Notes from a Swedish explorer
Lars Boström is a Team Leader and Web Coordinator at the Swedish Consumer Agency: a government agency under the Swedish Financial department. Lars is responsible for web development of Hallå Konsument;...
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11 February 2016: Sprint 16 live blog
17:50 Thank you for joining us on our first live blog journey. Don't forget, we're keen to hear all your feedback - feel free to comment below. 17:41 "We'll hold you to that @gdsteam #Sprint16" — Kit...
View ArticleTransforming government together
Every now and then we do well by taking stock of where we are and to map out the future. Sprint 16 was one of those moments. Over 450 attendees from across government gathered together to see...
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Hosting codebar at GDS
We recently hosted our first codebar event in our offices at Aviation House, near Holborn. What codebar is all about Codebar is a tutoring programme that helps women, LGBTQ, and people belonging to...
View ArticleWriting content for everyone
I work as a content designer on the Digital Marketplace and for over a year now, I’ve also been working as a volunteer in adult literacy classes. I’ve been using my experiences in the classroom to help...
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Let's talk about service patterns
We’ve talked elsewhere about how to make and share service patterns, but now seems a good time to explain in more detail what they do and how important they are. Service patterns are sets of practical...
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Guest post: building a digital standard for local government
Phil works as the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council. He’s also vice-chair of LocalGov Digital, a collaborative network started by local government officers Sarah Lay and Carl...
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GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events
Equality and diversity matters a lot to me, and to everyone here at GDS. I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago in my role as Cabinet Office LGB&TI Champion: Making the department one of the most...
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Digital principles for a better GDS
GDS is approaching its fifth birthday. It’s grown from a small organisation that delivered the prototype of GOV.UK in 12 weeks to one with responsibility for a number of transformation programmes,...
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Getting from data to registers
There is plenty of value in individual registers as authoritative sources of trustworthy core reference data - the first beta register, the country register, is being used by services such as the...
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An open address register
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Sludge G The UK government is regularly recognised for being a global leader in making public data openly available. Ministers have committed to being the most...
View ArticleAn open letter to our new Advisory Board
Dear Advisory Board members, In the spirit of publish, don’t send (“A good blog post can do the work of dozens of emails”), we thought we’d write to you here before our first meeting next month. Some...
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Building the service manager community
Eddie Davies is a service manager at Land Registry. Today he shares the experiences of the first cross-government service manager community meeting. Last week around 40 service managers and colleagues...
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Guest post: looking at the different ways to test content
Today we hear from two content experts sharing their thoughts about testing content. Christine works with GDS as a trainer, and is a content strategist. Emileigh is a lead content designer and...
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Giving clear presentations
Like ‘bunting in the office’ and ‘cake on release days’, ‘slides with big words’ has become one of GDS’s hallmarks. A few weeks on from Sprint 16 I wanted to write about why we encourage that. Our...
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Where we’re at, and where we’re going
Back in February, our Minister Matt Hancock launched the Sprint 16 event with this message: "We're transforming the relationship between citizen and state." That's the goal. GDS exists to help make...
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What we mean by service design
Our aim over this parliament is to transform the relationship between the citizen and state: to transform government, together. Service design is a big part of how we plan to do that, so it seemed...
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Thank you Liam
As some of you may have already heard, we’re delighted to announce that Liam Maxwell has been appointed as National Technology Advisor. It’s a new role, and a great next step for Liam after four years...
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