Next Tuesday (3 February), we shall be welcoming over 450 people to the British Film Institute in London for Sprint 15.
Terrific news from Australia: the government there has announced a new Digital Transformation Office and tasked it with "using technology to make services simpler, clearer and faster for Australian families and businesses."
Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, gave a speech in Brussels the other day and took digital by default one step further: right across Europe.
One of our design principles at GDS is “Make things open: it makes them better.” Since GDS was set up in 2012, working in the open has been a big part of who we are. It’s great for us to …
“A second digital revolution”, that’s what the Chief Scientific Advisor called the Internet of Things in his report in December. Rapid growth in devices connected to the internet – or networked in their own right – are certainly helping to …
This is something one of the GOV.UK team printed out, a simple word cloud that shows popular search terms on GOV.UK. What’s the thing people search for most? “Jobs.” Front and centre, far bigger than everything else on that page. …
Rural payments is an exemplar that meets the complex needs of farmers, a really important group of users.
We've said before, and no doubt we'll say again: transformation means more than fixing websites. It goes deeper than that, right into the organisations behind the websites.
It was my birthday on Wednesday, and Companies House sent me a present: they moved to GOV.UK that day.
GOV.UK is 2 years and 1 billion visits old today. So we’re celebrating. But it's worth remembering that we couldn't have got this far without a great deal of support from others.
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
