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Government as a Platform (GaaP) milestones

Posted by: Roxane Heaton - former Director for Digital, Data and Technology; Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on: 22 February 2021 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms, GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay
Five leaflets on a table, titled Government as a Platform. Text reads: “Government as a Platform (GaaP) is a way of building digital services using a set of common components.”

Government as a Platform (GaaP) products make it quicker and cheaper to create digital services. This month we're celebrating 4 milestones.

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Delivering digital transformation through remote partnerships

Posted by: Max Fitzhugh - Senior Delivery Manager, Government Digital Service, Sarah Crandall - Delivery Manager, Government Digital Service and Jude Hanan - Principal Digital Advisor, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 5 February 2021 - Categories: Digital engagement, Transformation
A digital collaborative board with notes outlining scope or minimum viable product goals, and sorting them into a spectrum ranging from high to low priority. Blue notes fall outside of the minimum viable product. There are also notes showing ideas for future problems to solve.

The Partnership for Development team helps other governments to make great digital services for people in their country, no matter where they work from.

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Spending Review - getting the right funding for the right challenges

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 19 January 2021 - Categories: Digital strategy, Digital, Data and Technology
A sticky note reading "How can GDS help?" stuck on a poster with the Government Digital Service (GDS) logo.

We share how we worked with other government departments to assure and support their bids to the Treasury for the Spending Review, and how this helped the Treasury in tackling vital technology issues.

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New year, new DDaT leadership

Posted by: Alex Chisholm - Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office, Posted on: 13 January 2021 - Categories: Digital, Data and Technology, GDS team, People and skills
Photo collage of Paul Willmott, Joanna Davinson and Tom Read.

Alex Chisholm, Chief Operating Officer for the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office, announces new senior leadership appointments in the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession.

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