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Where we’re at, and where we’re going

Screen shot of Country Register

Where we’re at, and where we’re going

Our job is digital transformation of government, and now feels like a good time to outline how we are going to do that.

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Giving clear presentations

Matthew Sheret, 7 April 2016 — Style, content and design

Applause slide

Like ‘bunting in the office’ and ‘cake on release days’, ‘slides with big words’ has become one of GDS’s hallmarks. A few weeks on from Sprint 16 I wanted to write about why we encourage that.

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Guest post: looking at the different ways to test content

Christine Cawthorne and Emileigh Barnes, 6 April 2016 — Style, content and design

Close up of Yoda (Star Wars)

Today we hear from two content experts about testing content (don't worry, the Yoda will make sense if you read on).

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Building the service manager community

Eddie Davies, 4 April 2016 — Service standard

Pile of sticky notes - top one reads "what do you want from GDS?"

Eddie Davies is a service manager at Land Registry. Today he shares the experiences of the first cross-government service manager community meeting.

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An open letter to our new Advisory Board

Stephen Foreshew-Cain, 31 March 2016 — GDS team

The journey ahead: Matt Hancock MP on stage with a screen reading "the journey ahead" . Photo taken at Sprint 16 GDS event

We have a new Advisory Board. Before their first meeting, we wanted to let them know a bit more about what we do. In the spirit of 'publish, don't send', we decided to write them an open letter here on the blog.

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An open address register

Paul Maltby, 23 March 2016 — Government as a Platform

Image of a row of houses

The government will provide up to £5 million to develop options for an authoritative address register that is open and freely available.

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Getting from data to registers

Ade Adewunmi, 11 March 2016 — Government as a Platform

Registers poster featuring list of characteristics available here: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/10/13/the-characteristics-of-a-register/

Individual registers are good but an ecosystem of linked registers is even better. That’s why every register needs to be designed with the wider ecosystem in mind.

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Digital principles for a better GDS

Alex Holmes, 9 March 2016 — GDS team, People and skills

Photo of GDS team listening to an impromptu talk in the Aviation House offices. Bunting, macbooks, signage.

We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.

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GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events

Stephen Foreshew-Cain, 8 March 2016 — GDS team, People and skills

Photo of a woman giving a talk in front of an audience. Slide on the screen reads "Transparent and collaborative". Audience look engaged, and speaker is gesticulating.

Today is International Women's Day, and I'm committing, in public, to the first of several actions that GDS is going to take to help improve gender diversity. In future, no-one from GDS will take part in a panel discussion of two or more people unless there is at least one woman on the panel.

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Guest post: building a digital standard for local government

Phil Rumens, 1 March 2016 — Digital strategy, Service standard

Local government visitors at GDS

Phil Rumens is the Digital Services Manager at West Berkshire Council and the vice-chair of LocalGov Digital. In this post, he talks about creating a Local Government Digital Standard.

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Let's talk about service patterns

Louise Downe, 29 February 2016 — Service standard, Style, content and design

Caseworkers at one of Defra's Environment Agency’s offices

We’ve talked elsewhere about how to make and share service patterns, but now seems a good time to explain in more detail what they do and how important they are.

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