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Writing guidance for the service design manual

Posted by: Gareth Rushgrove, Posted on: 19 April 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team

The Government Digital Service started out as a small group of people with experience building and running large online services. Since then we’ve grown the team, added lots of smart people, and talked to even more experts from other organisations. …

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Welcoming DWP to GOV.UK

Posted by: Angela Haber, Posted on: 17 April 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

Today we welcome the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to GOV.UK. DWP is the 21st department to move to the Inside Government section of GOV.UK. It has joined Inside Government with almost 900 publications, 9 new policies, a host …

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GOV.UK wins Design of the Year 2013

Posted by: Ben Terrett - former Director of Design, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 17 April 2013 - Categories: GDS team

Judges unanimously voted for GOV.UK above other category winners including fashion, furniture and architecture, for its "well thought out, yet understated design" - Design Museum design of the year award 16 April 2013 #designsoftheyear

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From the centre and here to help

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 16 April 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team

Today we launched the Government Service Design Manual. It sets out the agreed Digital by Default Service Standard, and provides tools, guidance and code to help teams across government achieve it. It meets one of our 14 commitments in the …

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The Open Standards Board

Posted by: Liam Maxwell, Posted on: 15 April 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy

In the Open Standards Principles we said that we'd set up an Open Standards Board to help us to decide which open standards to use in government IT. Now that we've published the first 8 challenges on the Standards Hub, …

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Delivering Identity Assurance: You must be certified

Posted by: Steve Wreyford, Posted on: 15 April 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login

We need to be sure that before any of the identity assurance framework suppliers begin providing services to departments, they are certified as being capable of delivering proof of identity as defined in the Government's Good Practice Guides.

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Search rankings with Google Spreadsheets

Posted by: Tara Stockford, Posted on: 12 April 2013 - Categories: Data

As one of the product analysts for GOV.UK, search is my main focus. Recently I built a handy tool to get an overview of Google search results, to help us review and optimise our content. I thought it was worth …

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This week at GDS

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 12 April 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...to their registration process. Several other large transactions at Defra, the Home Office, DWP and HMRC are also making progress. Next week sees the full launch of our Service Standard...

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Setting the standard

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 11 April 2013 - Categories: GDS team

Last month was a really important one for the Digital by Default Service Standard. We launched our beta for one thing. Just as importantly, the Digital Leaders network - the people responsible for driving the digital agenda across government - …

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Welcoming Defra and MOJ to GOV.UK

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 10 April 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

...ministerial departments that have moved their corporate information to GOV.UK up to 20, leaving just 4 more to go. This is fantastic progress and we’d like to thank colleagues in...

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