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Beta testing the Service Standard
Today we’re releasing a beta version of the Digital by Default Service Standard, a big step towards fulfilling one of the actions established in the Government Digital Strategy last November. The...
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Design and public services
Yesterday saw the publication of Restarting Britain 2 a report by the Design Commission part of the Associate Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group. The report looks at design’s role in “creating...
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This week at GDS
A busy end to the week. We announced the beta release of the Digital by Default Service Standard and the changes to the CIO profession yesterday. We also had visits from Brian McBride, Sir Peter...
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Intranets: DCMS doing it right
I’ve just got off the phone after talking to Andrew Simpson, the civil servant leading the redevelopment of the DCMS intranet. I’ve never met Andrew face to face, but I look forward to doing so,...
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Building the standard
At the outset, it wasn’t clear that we were making a manual. Our brief was to draw up the thing that all new services will be judged against – the Digital by Default Service Standard, as set out in the...
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Widgets, badges and blog bling. What stuff can I embed on GOV.UK?
One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is “Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?” In the spirit of “publish, don’t send” this blog...
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This week at GDS
This week GOV.UK is up for the Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum and the exhibition opened on Wednesday, the Department for Culture Media and Sport released a new intranet using GDS...
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GOV.UK is going Worldwide
Today we are very pleased to release the Worldwide section of GOV.UK, which explains the structure and activities of British government organisations in over 200 locations around the world. Worldwide...
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FCO travel services check-in to GOV.UK
This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK. There are lots of new features and services but a big focus for our team has been building the new Foreign Travel...
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Rising to the challenge on open standards
You might think that we’ve gone a little quiet since we published the Open Standards Principles last November, but we’ve been working hard on getting together the processes and the people to lead on...
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Making better choices for the technology we use
Getting a new message out This week the IT Reform team within GDS released new guidance to government departments and suppliers around the technology we use. We’ve done this to make sure our...
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Licensing on GOV.UK
Applying for licences is rarely a fun activity and this applies equally to the authorities responsible for processing them. When you wanted a licence extension for your birthday party in a pub this...
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As seen from the Department…
The move of web content from the Department of Health (DH) to GOV.UK has been a relatively calm experience for the DH team. It’s been extremely busy and quite intense at times but I only had one day...
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Welcoming four new departments to Inside Government
This week we have welcomed four new departments to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK: Department for International Development, Department of Health, Home Office and Wales Office. 18 of 24 This...
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Digital Britain Two
Today the National Audit Office (NAO) published their Digital Britain Two report, examining the government’s digital by default strategy. In particular, the report took a close look at the strategy...
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Beating performance anxiety
One of the most important objectives for the Digital by Default Service Standard project was setting out a consistent way of measuring service performance. Why? Because all too often, there has been no...
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Designs of the Year
The Design Museum’s annual ‘Designs of the Year’ awards exhibition launched last week. As usual it’s an eclectic mix of architecture, fashion, digital, furniture, products, transport and graphics....
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This week at GDS
Highlights this week – many more services make their transition to GOV.UK, including content with an international flavour in the form of the new Worldwide section. The policy content has also been...
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The first 100 days – how are we doing?
“The start of a process that will transform how we provide services…to make them…fit for the 21st Century – agile, flexible and digital by default”. That was how Francis Maude described the Government...
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This week at GDS
Highlights this week – we published our first quarterly progress report on the Government Digital Strategy, setting out what’s been achieved since it was published in December. Work is now well...
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