Mention the word "API" to the wrong audience and blank looks shortly follow. For the uninitiated, an API, or "Application Programming Interface", is a way for one computer to use information or services held on another computer, often across the …
At GDS, we have been building teams focused around product rather than teams focused solely on expertise and I am pretty typical of this ethos. My background is graphic design, so working on the web meant I needed to learn …
This afternoon, I attended the first meeting of the new cross-Government Digital Leaders network. Chaired by Mike Bracken it brought together the nominated Digital Leaders from all Government departments and the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with …
This week saw one of the key set pieces in the Government’s annual calendar - the Budget. All of Government is affected and we're no different here in Government Digital Service. In this budget the government set out its ambition …
As Product Analytics Lead at the Government Digital Service, one of my interests is how effectively people are finding government information and where they are finding it. I recently read the post on Government in the Lab; Social Media Drives …
The Cabinet Office Identity Assurance Programme (based in the Government Digital Service) aims to help users transact digitally with public services through convenient & secure login mechanisms. Behind this simple objective lies a complex problem: how to ensure the user …
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 which came into effect last year has presented UK website owners with a few challenges in moving to compliance. Those of us who work on public sector websites are no …
Since we released INSIDE GOVERNMENT, 2 weeks ago, we’re already iterating and have made a number of changes. We’ve had tons of useful feedback and we’re making incremental improvements in response, as well as continuing to develop the software and …
The easy answer to the title question would be No...but I don't like easy answers and I believe that No is fundamentally the wrong answer. My name is Carl Haggerty, I’m the Digital Communications Manager at Devon County Council. I've …
GDS aims to create digital services that are world class and become the channel of choice for service users. But the demographic of those who remain offline reveals that these very citizens are some of the heaviest users and most …
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