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GDS blogs round-up

As well as this blog, GDS has 14 other blogs about particular specialisms or programmes of work. Here are some stand-out posts from recent weeks.

Registered Traveller service goes live

Jeremy Gould, 17 February 2015 — Transformation

The Home Office’s Registered Traveller Service is out of beta and fully live.

China tourist visas: user research

Katy Arnold, 16 February 2015 — Transformation, User research

User research is a large part of what we do here at GDS, but we aren’t the only ones hard at work carrying out user testing

That was 400 days of delivery

Mike Bracken, 10 February 2015 — Assisted digital, Digital engagement, Digital inclusion, Digital Marketplace, Digital strategy, GDS team, GOV.UK, GOV.UK departments and policy, Identity assurance, Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), People and skills, Sprint 15, Transformation

Last week, we held an event: Sprint 15. It marked the culmination of the two-year transformation project that began with Sprint 13, when we made our plan clear: there were 400 days to transform government.

Exemplars making examples of themselves

Mike Bracken, 5 February 2015 — Transformation

Lots of my blog posts in recent months have included a bit of moaning about failure waste – problems created by poorly-designed services, most of them decades old and paper-heavy, that leave their users with nothing but questions.

Sprint 15 round-up

GDS team, 4 February 2015 — Sprint 15, Transformation

Yesterday we hosted Sprint 15, a chance for colleagues from all over government to catch up, swap notes and tips, and find out more about the digital transformation programme.

Sprint 15 next week

Mike Bracken, 28 January 2015 — Sprint 15

Next Tuesday (3 February), we shall be welcoming over 450 people to the British Film Institute in London for Sprint 15.

Simpler, clearer, Australia

Mike Bracken, 26 January 2015 — Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), Transformation

Terrific news from Australia: the government there has announced a new Digital Transformation Office and tasked it with “using technology to make services simpler, clearer and faster for Australian families and businesses.”

This is a vision you should see

Mike Bracken, 22 January 2015 — Digital strategy

Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, gave a speech in Brussels the other day and took digital by default one step further: right across Europe.

Exploring the Internet of Things

Mike Bracken, 19 January 2015 — GDS team

“A second digital revolution”, that’s what the Chief Scientific Advisor called the Internet of Things in his report in December. Rapid growth in devices connected to the internet – or networked in their own right – are certainly helping to …