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Alpha.gov.uk wrap-up

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

...at the core of design process. This isn't a new approach, but it's one that still all too rare across government. Crucially, all but a handful of the team who...

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Directgov - our story

Posted by: Guy Ker, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

Directgov was launched in April 2004 to allow people to access public services and government information in a single place. We know that people care little about the structures of...

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Digital Engagement in GDS

Posted by: Eleanor Stewart, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement

...I work on two areas to embed these tools to support public services. One of these is to improve internal engagement and collaboration within the Civil Service so that we...

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e-petitions

Posted by: Chris Watson - Head of Communications, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 29 July 2011 - Categories: Transformation

This is the first delivery product from the Government Digital Service (GDS) using Skunkworks techniques to provide an agile delivery and SME engagement capability for the public sector: e-petitions is...

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Innovation – the first strand: Delivery

Posted by: James Taylor, Posted on: 28 July 2011 - Categories: Transformation

Government ICT has gained the reputation for being about massive projects, with very long time scales, very high costs and being primarily delivered by a small number of very big suppliers.

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An introduction to Assisted Digital

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 28 July 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, Digital strategy

We provide an introduction to Assisted Digital which allows customers with different support requirements to access digital services, ensuring no one is left behind.

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How does this look from outside the UK?

Posted by: Jimmy Leach, Posted on: 9 June 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

One of the problems that Alphagov is trying to solve is the confusion generated by the fragmented nature of the government’s digital offering. Who’s in charge of what? Those who...

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Sketching our way to Alpha.gov.uk

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 2 June 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

We’ve talked about initial analysis, design rules and technology. Now we're taking those sketches to build something to satisfy them on Alpha.gov.uk.

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A vision for online consultation and policy engagement

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

We discuss what government should do to consult, engage and involve people more openly in the work it does, online.

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What was the evidence? Users’ information needs and analytics

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 23 May 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK, User research

We share learnings we got from analytics about what people are doing when visiting government web pages.

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