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Testing the redirections
Now that GOV.UK has replaced Directgov and BusinessLink, and departments are moving to Inside Government, we want to make sure that people visiting links to the old sites get where they need to be. We...
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Exemptions
The aim of GOV.UK is to bring all government information and services into one place – that is why we are looking to transition over all our websites onto GOV.UK by April 2014. However, there were...
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Browser usage on GOV.UK
Earlier this year James Weiner and Ben Welby wrote about the browsers and devices that we are supporting on GOV.UK. We made these decisions using browser/device data from various sources including...
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A day in the life of a delivery manager
‘A day in the life of…’ articles typically go something like this, “8:02: my day starts with a walk over Waterloo Bridge. A flat white later and I’m ready to begin. Some quiet minutes to check emails...
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11 more organisations join GOV.UK
It’s been a whole month since the Departments for Transport and Communities and Local Government moved over to GOV.UK. That kicked off a process which will see around 300 departments and agencies...
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Meet the Transformation team
We’ve previously introduced the Finance team and the Hosting and Infrastructure team, and shone the Spotlight on procurement. Now we invite you to find out more about the work of the Transformation...
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This week at GDS
A few relatively quiet weeks have been building up to a busy five days at GDS. More releases, an office reshuffle and some special guests all combined to make sure we don’t go quiet in the run-up to...
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Liam Maxwell and IT Reform Group join GDS
One year on from the official launch of the Government Digital Service, it seems like a good time to reflect on what we’re doing and how we and the rest of the Cabinet Office fit together. For the past...
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Agencies and Arm’s Length Bodies – the next phase of Inside Government
Last week, Pauline Ferris wrote about the process we went through to decide which central government websites are exempt from the move to GOV.UK. Today we’ve published this list. As Pauline said, this...
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The role of the agile wall at GDS
As Mark mentioned in his blog post last week, daily stand ups at GDS take place in front of the team walls. The walls are a great focus for the teams, but they have a lot of other benefits that make...
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Researching Inside Government
Hi I’m Angela, I work in the User Research Team and would like to talk about the range of research we conducted in the run up to the launch of Inside Government Just to recap, on 15 November the GDS...
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Supporting access to the Digital Strategy
Today we published the Government Approach to Assisted Digital as part of the Government Digital Strategy. Assisted Digital provision is the help and support we will provide so people who can’t use...
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The Highest Jump
In November the Government Digital Strategy set out a shared vision for digital by default government; our digital services must be so straightforward and convenient people prefer to use them. This...
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The End of the Beginning
Today’s launch of 18 departmental digital strategies is a statement of ambition for the reform of public services. Mike Bracken writes about what these plans for digital transformation mean. These...
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Digital Transformation in 2013: The strategy is delivery. Again.
In 2011, while gearing up to take on my current role, I discussed with the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, the strategy I recommended we adopt for all things digital. The strategy was...
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Digital’s place in the diplomatic toolkit
Departments’ Digital Strategies showed how far the impact of digital has been within government. For the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the addition of social media tools to the diplomatic...
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The Inside Government dashboard
Following the release of Inside Government, we’re releasing a dashboard to track progress and usage. New departments and organisations will be moving to Inside Government in the coming months. So far...
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This week at GDS
Lots of bits of GDS are going to be working with lots of bits of government during 2013. We’re getting bigger, getting more scattered and it’s important that we let each other know what’s going on....
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The Future is Here
The future of UK Government Digital Services is here. On January 21st 2013 at Sprint 13 we will show the best of digital from across government, all packed into one morning. Who is this for? All those...
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
We are shocked and saddened by the death of Aaron Swartz. Some of us at GDS were fortunate to have met him; others were involved in the many projects he worked on; all of us are in some way indebted to...
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