What’s next for GOV.UK in 2021 to 2022
At GOV.UK we have a clear vision for our work: we want to provide a trusted, joined-up and personalised service for our users. I’ve written about our plan before and work towards implementing it is...
View ArticlePodcast: GOV.UK Platform as a Service
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e83vtq/PaaS_Podcast_FINAL_ba4z3.mp3 GOV.UK Platform as a Service (GOV.UK PaaS) helps public sector organisations to swiftly and securely host their digital services...
View ArticleThe next steps for digital, data and technology in government
Alex Chisholm, Chief Operating Officer for the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office, blogged about our appointments to the senior leadership of the DDaT (Digital, Data and...
View ArticlePodcast: Role of product teams in greening delivery
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/66kvdh/Greening_ICT_FINAL_7ar7s.mp3 Celebrated each April, Earth Day is an opportunity for people to come together and show their support for environmental protection....
View ArticleOur plans to improve navigation on GOV.UK
One of the Government Digital Service’s (GDS) priorities for the next 5 years is making sure that GOV.UK remains reliable, accurate and continues to meet user needs. That’s why we’re always looking to...
View ArticleGovernment Digital Service: Our strategy for 2021-2024
Our purpose At GDS, our mission is to build a simple, joined-up and personalised experience of government for everyone. Using our unique position at the centre of government, we will develop services...
View ArticlePodcast: Tom Read talks GDS’s future strategy
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/play/v88u47/Meet_the_CEO_Final7h319.mp3 Tom Read was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Government Digital Service in February 2021 - and he’s been busy since...
View ArticleWe’re hiring more user researchers at GDS
GDS will be hiring user researchers to support our exciting and ambitious strategy. We are looking for several user researchers to join us across the board, in the GOV.UK, Digital Identity and...
View ArticleGOV.UK Accounts: enabling proactive, personalised and joined-up services
We've been trialling a GOV.UK Account on the Brexit Checker since last November. It's a way of letting users save their personalised answers, receive notifications and log back in to see what they...
View ArticlePodcast: The vision for GOV.UK and the roadmap to get there
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c6ggi6/GOVUK_Roadmap_Podcast_FINAL_7xkko.mp3 GOV.UK is the digital home for the UK government. It’s vital for anyone wanting to live, work, trade or study in the UK....
View ArticleMaking all forms on GOV.UK accessible, easy to use and quick to process
We want every form on GOV.UK to be accessible, easy to use and quick to process. To make this possible, we’re helping operations teams that run public-facing services with fewer than 10,000...
View ArticleA single sign-on and digital identity solution for government
Last month Tom Read, our CEO, wrote about GDS’s strategy for 2021 to 2024. Today, I want to provide an update on our work to build a single sign-on and digital identity solution for government. The...
View ArticlePodcast: Technologists at GDS
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ud7hrb/Technologists_at_GDS_FINAL_v2__mixdowna3baz.mp3 Technical architects, site reliability engineers and developers are a mainstay of how GDS is helping government...
View ArticlePodcast: Digital identity - working with government services
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/evsbpa/Digital_Identity_Podcast_FINAL_v2_7yzds.mp3 We’re building one simple, secure way for people to sign in to all digital government services and make it possible...
View ArticleHow will the new single sign-on and a GOV.UK Account work together?
At GDS, our mission is to build a simple, joined-up and personalised experience of government for everyone. Over the last few months we've written about our work on a GOV.UK account, and a new single...
View ArticleWorking at GDS as a developer
The Government Digital Service’s (GDS) ambition is to build platforms, products and services that help create a simple, joined-up and personalised experience of government to everyone. In a recent...
View ArticlePodcast: Collecting information from users
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/87qz4q/CIFU_podcast_September_2021_V365s56.mp3 In this month’s episode of the Government Digital Service (GDS) Podcast, we’re joined by Harry Vos and Moyosore Kolawole...
View ArticleSingle sign-on: What we learned during our identity alpha
GDS is building a single sign-on and identity solution, with help and support from colleagues right across government. This is the third mission of the GDS strategy for 2021-2024: “A simple digital...
View ArticleWe’ve created a new guide for content design recruitment
GOV.UK as a website is read by millions of people, worldwide, every day. You are among them - even if you didn’t realise it. The content we publish is really important. At the Government Digital...
View ArticlePodcast: How our Site Reliability Engineers migrated GOV.UK Pay
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hyhkad/SREs_Podcast_FINAL_9jpqm.mp3 In this month’s episode of the Government Digital Service (GDS) Podcast, we’re joined by Jonathan Harden and Kat Stevens, who...
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