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Accessibility

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 6 May 2011 - Categories: Accessibility, GOV.UK

...context and help make future government sites more accessible for everyone. Photo credit: Paul Downey Richard Pope was Product Owner on the Alpha.gov.uk prototype. You should follow @richardjpope on Twitter...

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A few design rules for Alpha.gov.uk

Posted by: Richard Pope - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 April 2011 - Categories: Content design, GOV.UK

...driving test than an HGV one, more people get made redundant than have to make someone redundant, so we should optimise for the common case. The start of any process,...

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Towards a simpler, smaller, nimbler, cheaper, better GOV.UK

Posted by: alphagov, Posted on: 28 April 2011 - Categories: GOV.UK

Alpha.gov.uk will test a selection of products and technologies aiming to meet the needs that people have from government online.

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Towards a Single Government Domain

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 29 March 2011 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

...so Chris Chant has commissioned a project to test its feasibility. Chris has asked Tom Loosemore, formerly of the BBC’s web operation, to pull together the project. He will be...

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Introducing the Government Digital Service

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 15 March 2011 - Categories: GDS team

The Government Digital Service is the new name for the organisation created by the merging of Directgov and the Cabinet Office Digital Delivery and Digital Engagement teams, following the recommendations...

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Right to Data and the Protection of Freedoms Bill

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 15 February 2011 - Categories: Technology

...data will help citizens to make choices about their services and better enable them to converse and collaborate with Government. The Coalition Agreement stated that the Government will “create a...

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Introducing Chris Chant

Posted by: The Digital Engagement Team, Posted on: 4 February 2011 - Categories: Digital engagement

...Martha Lane Fox’s report Directgov 2010 and Beyond: Revolution Not Evolution , his role in finding efficiency savings in the public sector’s use of technology and the future for digital...

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