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User needs and revolutions
In 2010, Martha Lane Fox (the UK’s Digital Champion at the time) completed her review of the government’s web offering.
GOV.UK hosting – simpler, clearer, faster
Recently the Government Digital Service’s infrastructure team moved GOV.UK to a new hosting platform. Find out what happened …
Digital Inclusion Strategy launches today
Last December, we published action 15 of the Government Digital Strategy to show the government’s commitment to digital inclusion.
Getting approval for agile spending
Today, GDS and HM Treasury publish new clarification of business case guidance. We needed to explain how government organisations get permission to spend money on agile work.
The Performance Platform: open for business
The Performance Platform is a tool for government to answer the question ‘how are we doing?’. At present, the important facts are not accessible to the right people, at the right time, in the right way.
Weekend links: Environment Agency blog, weeknotes, interning at FCO and more
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Digital marches on: rising take-up, falling costs
The Transactions Explorer has enabled government to track progress on its key performance indicators for the first time.
A year in the making – the Digital by Default Service Standard
Today the Digital by Default Service Standard comes into full force.
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Inside a service manager’s head
We talk a lot about building “digital services so good, people prefer to use them”; but we don’t often talk about the people who are going to run those services. These people are very important. They’re in charge of building, …