“Do less” is one of our design principles. Visiting the Environment Agency in Bristol, it struck me that sometimes one of the best things departments can do to support digital transformation is to let the really talented people get on …
Hands up if you remember Transport Direct - www.transportdirect.info. It was a journey planner for British transport - all of it, everywhere. Roads and traffic, rail journeys, cycle routes, foot and vehicle ferries, you name it.
You may have already seen the good news earlier today, but I wanted to mention it here too: Liam Maxwell has signed on the dotted line to stay with us as Chief Technology Officer for government until at least 2018. …
A few weeks ago, I went to Coventry to visit the Skills Funding Agency, where a team is working on a new online service to help young people in England apply for apprenticeships.
Today we’re announcing that more than 100 digital and technology experts have been brought into government departments over the last 12 months to drive the digital transformation of public services. We’ve known all along that if we want to transform …
We spend a lot of time banging on about sharing. Sharing code, sharing design ideas, sharing everything so that others can benefit.
Our boss Stephen Kelly, the Chief Operating Officer of HM Government, has announced today that he will be leaving government in a few months. He will go on to lead Sage plc as Group Chief Executive.
The winner was ... a prototype of a quick and easy online service to let people pay fines using a simple reference number. With a working payment system, the prototype wouldn't be far away from a releasable public beta. In …
Good news from the north east: our colleagues at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have officially opened the Digital Delivery Centre Newcastle, a new headquarters for the HMRC Digital team.
Our fourth design principle is "Do the hard work to make it simple”. A team working at the Ministry of Justice have been putting that into action recently, trying to simplify a legal process known as “accelerated possession”, just one …
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