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Testing with users around the world

Posted by: Katy Arnold and Chris Atherton, Posted on: 9 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK, Transformation

...work we were doing and went out of their way to help us by talking to staff in overseas visa application centres. We tested a lot in Kuwait, quite a...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 8 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...they’re keeping their own website. They’ve done a whole revamp, and launched their new site, as well, last week. You can find that at nationalarchives.gov.uk. So, well done to them....

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Supporting service managers

Posted by: Paul Slade, Posted on: 8 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

The Government Digital Strategy described a new role crucial for helping create digital services so good that people choose to use them - the service manager. We’ve started an induction and development programme for those people, prototyping and learning as …

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Getting online in Gateshead

Posted by: Anna Maren Ashford, Posted on: 7 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...event brought together organisations from all corners of society to Gateshead, to launch their north east digital inclusion programme. We heard from Martha Lane Fox, local government leaders, business and...

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Welcoming even more people to GOV.UK

Posted by: James Thornett, Posted on: 3 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

The transition team are the people responsible for helping hundreds more agencies and organisations move their websites onto GOV.UK. They’ve started blogging about that work, and I wanted to explain a bit more about what that work means for GDS.

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Kathy Settle, Posted on: 1 October 2013 - Categories: Accessibility, GDS team, Technology

This week news of an office move at GDS, as well as new developments on open standards and the launch of Go ON North East. Rewired State are holding a...

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