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Rising to the challenge on open standards

Posted by: Liam Maxwell, Posted on: 25 March 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy

You might think that we’ve gone a little quiet since we published the Open Standards Principles last November, but we’ve been working hard on getting together the processes and the people to lead on some of the open standards challenges …

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FCO travel services check-in to GOV.UK

Posted by: Sara Bowley, Posted on: 25 March 2013 - Categories: GOV.UK

This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK. There are lots of new features and services but a big focus for our team has been building the new Foreign Travel Advice pages. Foreign Travel …

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GOV.UK is going Worldwide

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 25 March 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...clearer, faster Worldwide takes over from some long established and well-used sites and attempts to tackle a number of challenges troubling those sites by making them simpler, clearer and faster....

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 22 March 2013 - Categories: GDS team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHlJwPJ7Nyw This week GOV.UK is up for the Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum and the exhibition opened on Wednesday, the Department for Culture Media and Sport...

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Widgets, badges and blog bling. What stuff can I embed on GOV.UK?

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 22 March 2013 - Categories: Content design, GOV.UK

One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is "Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?" In the spirit of "publish, don't send" this blog post sets out …

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Building the standard

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 21 March 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy

...managers and their teams. It also introduced project pages where service managers could record their progress and share their learnings: Guides and toolkits were stored on Github, then synced into...

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Intranets: DCMS doing it right

Posted by: Tom Loosemore - former Deputy Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 18 March 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...the site to be responsive to different screen sizes, using open standards. They launched the beta early, despite knowing it still had rough edges, because nothing beats real feedback from...

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This week at GDS

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 15 March 2013 - Categories: GDS team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUoQgUswXGo A busy end to the week. We announced the beta release of the Digital by Default Service Standard and the changes to the CIO profession yesterday. We also had...

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Design and public services

Posted by: gov.uk archive author, Posted on: 15 March 2013 - Categories: GDS team

...focus on users runs throughout the report, "A design approach to public services starts not with service providers but with citizens, customers and service users." Lots of the examples given...

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Beta testing the Service Standard

Posted by: Andrew Greenway, Posted on: 14 March 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team

...to help build services that meet the standard. What good looks like The standard will be applied to all large services from April 2014. The point of the standard is...

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