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GOV.UK accessibility: beyond box-ticking
Last year we decided to drop the accessibility statement from GOV.UK. This week I was asked whether this decision sent out the wrong message to organisations wanting to make a public commitment to...
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This week at GDS
We’re just back from an all-staff meeting, which was a great chance to see what teams throughout GDS have been up to over the last few weeks. We’ve also had meetings with the National Audit Office and...
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The journey in the Cloud has just begun
A year ago today we launched the first G-Cloud framework and started the journey to provide a new way for the public sector to commission and buy technology-based services. And what a journey it’s...
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The Performance Platform is recruiting
Last summer we built a prototype of a tool designed to help departments make better use of their data to improve public services. In October that prototype became the first GOV.UK dashboard and by...
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Cabinet Office move turns Inside Government up to 11
Cabinet Office has become the ninth department to move its corporate and policy information to GOV.UK. The Cabinet Office move brings with it the Offices of the Leaders of the Houses of Commons and...
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This week at GDS
We’re just back from an all-staff meeting, which was a great chance to see what teams throughout GDS have been up to over the last few weeks. We’ve also had meetings with the National Audit Office and...
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Sharing across borders
As the GDS story has travelled around the world, it’s not surprising that some of the world has wanted to come and find out more. This week, for example, we’re meeting the Swedish Social Insurance...
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This week at GDS
This week’s round-up comes from Kathy Settle, Deputy Director at GDS. The full transcript is below. What has GDS been up to this week? Two big things to flag this week: the first one is GOV.UK. The...
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Giving it to us straight
With the number of ministerial departments, public bodies and agencies on Inside Government increasing each month and features being released or adjusted daily, it is important to gauge the success of...
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Marking one year since the Inside Government beta
A year ago today we launched the beta of Inside Government on GOV.UK – a working, public demo of a product which to many people had previously seemed unimaginable. The site was a live test of what...
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Introducing the Content Explorer
Today we released a new module on the Performance Platform that enables exploration of how the individual components of GOV.UK and Inside Government are being used. For each piece of content, we show...
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Moving ‘Inside Government’ – HMRC’s experience
Teams from across government are making the transition to Inside Government. Robin Riley, HMRC Head of Digital Engagement (and project lead for HMRC on Inside Government), writes about what it was...
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This week at GDS
Two big releases this week, with the new additions to Inside Government and the release of the Content Explorer, and we’ve visited DFID and the Student Loans Company up in Scotland. What have we been...
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The Northern Future Forum
In 2010 the Prime Minister established the Northern Future Forum (NFF) with a different angle on the typical international summit. Instead of the usual set piece speeches and behind-the-scenes trading,...
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Young, expert and advising
Last month I was appointed to the European Commission’s Young Advisors Expert Group and this week I visited Brussels for our first meeting of the year. The Young Advisors Group is made up of...
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This week at GDS
This week started with the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, and saw the beginning of work alongside HMRC on their exemplar services. We’re also gearing up for the beta release of the...
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Interesting browser stats
One of the GDS design principles is ‘design with data’. Front end developers need to know what the current browser landscape looks like and in which browsers they should be regularly testing new...
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We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all.
We’re in the middle of a significant change in how people use digital services. Use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is exploding. People should be able to use digital services...
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Identity Alphas
Identity Assurance is made up of many different areas of work, as you’d expect of a complex programme. Whether they’re focused on business processes, security, commercial models, government standards...
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Of the web, not on the web
Today we announced some small but important changes in governance. The detail is here but the upshot is: we won’t have a cross-government Chief Information Officer (CIO) any more, nor a Head of...
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