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Accessibility and the Single Government Domain

Posted by: Léonie Watson, Posted on: 5 September 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, GOV.UK

Hello! I'm Léonie Watson. I'm working with Government Digital Service (GDS) on the accessibility of the beta site. This is the first of a series of accessibility focused posts I'll be putting together over the next few months.

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Teacamp September 2011: Open Knowledge Foundation and Scraperwiki

Posted by: Jane O'Loughlin, Posted on: 5 September 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement, Technology

...Beeman and @GlynWintle talking about @Linkedgov • @StevenRWilkes from the Home Office, talking about the digital engagement strand of the government ICT strategy Next teacamps are: 6 October, 3 November,...

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Government corporate websites in eye-popping 3D

Posted by: Neil Williams - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 24 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

This is the first of a series of posts about how I'm taking forward objective two of the single domain project: the "private beta test of a shared 'corporate' publishing platform aimed at replacing most of the activity currently hosted …

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Will it be orange?

Posted by: Paul Annett, Posted on: 18 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

To outsiders it may sound like a superficial question, but one thing I keep getting asked around Government is "will the single-domain be orange?" – at least in reference to the sections for citizens which will launch in public Beta …

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e-petitions – the Second Week

Posted by: Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 16 August 2011 - Categories: Transformation

...technical architect capacity to the team to review configuration at key stages and as part of live operation. We will back this up with standard components and tools for common...

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Gov.uk – from Alpha to Beta

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 11 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...transforming the experience of gov.uk transactions will require a federated identity layer across Government services. Not a trivial challenge. Indeed, radically improving the quality of all gov.uk transactional services to...

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A question of trust

Posted by: David Rennie, Posted on: 10 August 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login

I have a spreadsheet on my computer at home with about 100 user names and passwords on it. I never have it to hand when I need it. Security experts tell me that I shouldn't note them down, especially with …

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e-petitions - Day 1 Learning

Posted by: Mark O'Neill - former Head of Innovation and Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 4 August 2011 - Categories: Transformation

...We are working to increase the capacity and the performance of the site to support the interest in this initiative. I am sorry to anyone who was unable to access...

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Connecting People

Posted by: Eleanor Stewart, Posted on: 4 August 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement

One of the Digital Engagement team’s responsibilities is the ‘Connecting People’ program. This looks to improve internal engagement within the Civil Service by providing a series of digital tools to all users of the Government Secure Intranet. The CivilMedia Suite …

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Welcome to the Government Digital Service blog

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: GDS team

...into one function in order to drive up quality and consistency of user experience. Please do take some time to review our projects. As the new Director of Digital it...

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